Dr. Rowan Lymbery is an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Western Australia. He completed his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at UWA in 2018, following a BSc (Hons) in Zoology from the same university in 2012. His professional career encompasses research and consulting roles, including Research Associate positions at UWA from 2018 to 2020 and since 2021, Principal Biologist at Bennelongia Environmental Consultants in 2020, and Biologist there in 2013. Lymbery's academic journey reflects a commitment to evolutionary biology, with early work in environmental consulting transitioning to advanced research on reproductive processes.

Lymbery's research centers on sexual selection, the evolution of sperm-egg interactions, and parental effects influencing offspring fitness across taxa including broadcast-spawning marine invertebrates, live-bearing fish such as guppies, and fruit flies. Key interests include ejaculate-mediated paternal effects, environmental stressors like thermal stress and ocean acidification on gametes, multivariate selection on ejaculate traits, sperm chemotaxis, and molecular mechanisms governing sperm behavior and function. His publications, featured in high-impact journals, include 'Egg chemoattractants moderate intraspecific sperm competition' (Evolution Letters, 2017), 'Multivariate sexual selection on ejaculate traits under sperm competition' (The American Naturalist, 2018), 'Post-ejaculation thermal stress causes changes to the RNA profile of sperm in an external fertiliser' (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020), 'Sexual selection after gamete release in broadcast spawning invertebrates' (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2020), 'The thermal environment of sperm affects offspring success' (Biology Letters, 2021), and 'Silent cells? Potential for context-dependent gene expression in mature sperm' (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2025). These works have advanced understanding of post-mating sexual selection and environmental impacts on reproduction. Lymbery has received awards such as the Syracuse University Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020), Robert Street Prize (2018), UWA School of Biological Sciences Strategic Funding (2018), and Editor's Choice, Evolution Letters (2017). He contributes to projects like investigating female salmon influences on male fertility and mitochondrial DNA effects on mussel reproduction.

Professional Email: rowan.lymbery@uwa.edu.au