Dr Eleanor Bath
College Lecturer in Biology
Education
BA BSc (New South Wales), DPhil (Oxford)
I am a Departmental Lecturer in Biology (Behaviour) in the Department of Zoology at Oxford. I’m currently studying the effects of mating on female aggression in fruit flies, and looking at female-female aggression in a variety of other species (including humans!).
I am broadly interested in all things evolutionary, particularly those related to sexual or social selection. My research ranges from genital morphology to female aggression and the expression of secondary sexual characters. I’m currently based at Christ Church College and the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford in the UK. I’m interested in a broad range of topics and am always happy to talk about potential collaborations. My main focus right now, though is on female-female competition, with the majority of my work looking at the role of mating in increasing female aggression in fruit flies.