Michael Pauers

Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
Associate Professor, College of General Studies

Education

BS, Biological Sciences, UW-Milwaukee
PhD, Evolutionary Biology and Animal Behavior, UW-Milwaukee

Bio

Mike is a native of the Milwaukee area, having grown up in Wauwatosa. A childhood fascination with fishes led to both professional and academic interests, culminating in research projects involving the behavior, morphology, ecology, color vision, and taxonomy of cichlid fishes from Lake Malawi, Africa.

Research

Current research interests include descriptions of new species of cichlids from Lake Malawi, sexual selection in Lake Malawi cichlids, and the effects of hybridization on coloration and morphology in the cichlids of Lake Malawi.

Publications

Mike has over 20 peer-reviewed publications on the biology of fishes, with some additional papers in herpetology.