Early-career researchers: an interview with Cosima Porteus

Abstract

Cosima Porteus is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK, where she studies how fish sense, interact with and respond to their environment. She received her Bachelor's degree in Marine and Freshwater Biology from the University of Guelph, Canada, in 2004 before completing her Master's degree in Integrative Biology in 2006 at the same institution with Don Stevens and Pat Wright. After completing a PhD with Bill Milsom at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2012, Porteus joined Rod Wilson at the University of Exeter, UK, for a postdoctoral fellowship.