ECR Spotlight – Gabriella Sparkes

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Gabriella Sparkes is an author on ‘ Sex-specific performance, trade-offs and trait repeatability across the lifetime of the world's largest semelparous mammal (Dasyurus hallucatus)’, published in JEB. Gabriella is a PhD student in the lab of Robbie Wilson at the University of Queensland, Australia, investigating how movement and performance shape survival and reproductive success in wild animals, from life-history strategies and performance trade-offs to fine-scale behaviour and locomotion of animals navigating complex landscapes.