Sarah Pryke
Sarah Rosalind Pryke is a behavioural and evolutionary ecologist. A graduate of the University of Natal (South Africa), with a PhD from Göteborg University (Sweden), she is best known for her research on the evolution of sexual signals in the Red-collared widowbird and more recently research on maternal effects and the evolution of alternative reproductive strategies in the Gouldian finch. Career. Pryke began her postdoctoral career with a move to Australia in 2005. At this time she took up New South Global Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of New South Wales. In 2007 she moved to Macquarie  University to take up an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, followed in 2010 by an Innovation Research Fellowship awarded by Macquarie University. In 2012, Pryke obtained a faculty position at the Australian National University where she moved to establish her own research group and start and ARC Future Fellowship.