This month we welcome new PhD student Zita Roithmair to the Painting Lab. Zita comes to us from Vienna, Austria, where she has a background in zoology. Her MSc studied the morphology and diversity of sexually dimorphic characters in centipedes, and she is also currently in the final stages of completing a second MSc in Conservation and Ecology.

Zita will be working with Chrissie on the mating systems of Dolomedes fishing spiders, alongside Dion O’Neale (University of Auckland), Eileen Hebets (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), and Matjaž Kuntner (National Institute of Biology, Slovenia).