Monica Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in Evolutionary Ecology and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, a Research Affiliate at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Biological Intelligence Lab at the University of Sydney. Her main research is broadly focusing on key aspects of the ecological processes by which organisms are able to gather information on the variable conditions of their surrounding environment in order to thrive.
In collaboration with various disciplines across the sciences and the humanities, her research aims at expanding our perception of animals, plants, and more generally Nature. In the process of learning how to do this, she has pioneered the brand-new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, re-igniting the discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience, and ethical standing.
