and Doctor of Philosophy (2006) from the University of Western Australia, his doctoral thesis being on "Evolution of Locomotion in Australian Varanid lizards (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanidae): Ecomorphological and ecophysiological considerations".
He is a Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Queensland and in 2011 was awarded a grant of A$375,000 for "Design of a biologically inspired running and climbing robotic lizard" by the Australian Research Council. He has a Bachelor of Science He has held post-doctoral positions at Cambridge (2007-2009) and Harvard (2010-2012). In October 2013 he appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s The Museum of Curiosity.
His hypothetical donation to this fictional museum was "a lizard popping a wheelie": he explained that when a dragon lizard reaches a certain running speed its front legs lift off the ground because they cannot match the speed of the back legs, so it acquires a bipedal gait, analogous to a bicycle"s wheelie.
