Mark Stevens

MARK STEVENS – history
With Adelaide as my hometown I enjoyed playing sports most of the time through school years. Not knowing what I wanted to do I naturally gravitated to university where I graduated with Bachelor of Science (Hons) at Flinders University in 1998. I then did what most considered was an oxymoron and migrated with my ‘soon to be’ wife to New Zealand to undertake a PhD at The University of Waikato followed by Postdoctoral Research at Massey University with a 6-month fellowship with CNRS in Paris in 2008. By this time we had two wonderful ‘kiwi’ kids and had become stout ‘All Blacks’ fans! In September 2008 I began my current research position at the South Australian Museum (clearly free baby-sitting was the motivation at the time). At the South Australian Museum, I enjoy collaborating with researchers from Flinders University and The University of Adelaide (where I am an Assoc Prof affiliate) that have provided excellent research facilities, and opportunities to co-supervise honours and PhD students. This has been possible through research grants from the Australia Pacific Science Foundation to study bee diversity and evolution in the South West Pacific. Recent ARC success in 2021 has come with a 7-year funded ARC Special Research Initiative hosted by Monash University “Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future” (https://arcsaef.com/).
Some stats on me if you like numbers: since 2003 I have a h-index of 38 and an i10 of 101 from 181 publications with over 5423 citations (see Google Scholar for publication list: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Zhnqx9IAAAAJ&hl=en).