Our people
Principal Investigator
Dr Misha Vorobyev
Senior Lecturer
Dr Misha Vorobyev is the head of the Ecology of Colour Vision laboratory. The main theme of his research is the relationship between colour vision systems and colourful patterns of plant and animals.
Dr Vorobyev’s work has attracted over 10,000 citations (h index – 46, 23 papers cited over 100 times each, google scholar).
Contact Dr Misha Vorobyev:
Address: Building 503, Room 369, 85 Park Rd, Grafton, Auckland
Phone: +021 70 8441
Fax: +64 9 373 7058
Email: m.vorobyev@auckland.ac.nz
Other researchers
Luis Namad
Post doctoral fellow
Collaborations
The ECVL has the following collaborations in progress:
- Signalling in birds with Dr. Mark Hauber (School of Biological Science, The University of Auckland and City University of New York)
- Colour vision and colours in reef fish with Prof. Justin Marshall, Drs. Nathan Hart and Ulrike Seibeck (University of Queensland)
- Signalling in fiddler crabs with Drs. Jochen Zeil and Jan Hemmi (Australian National University)
- Colour vision in butterflies with Prof. Kentaro Arikawa (Yokohama City University, Japan) and Dr. Almut Kelber (University of Lund, Sweden)
- Ecology of primate colour vision with Prof. Shoji Kawamura (University of Tokyo) and Prof. Daniel Osorio (University of Sussex, UK)
- Flower colours and colour vision of insect pollinators with Dr. Natalie Hempel de Ibarra (University of Exeter, UK) and Prof. Randolf Menzel (Free University Berlin)