Research fellow Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University Vic. 3800, Australia e-mail Suzanne.Sadedin@infotech.monash.edu.au phone (+613) 9905 5885

Research interests

• Speciation
• Sexual selection and mate choice evolution
• Hybrid zones
• Ecological and evolutionary applications of complexity theory
• Evolution of modular systems
• Agent-based and cellular automata models
• Artificial life

Publications

• Sadedin, S. 2006. A simple model for the evolution of irreducible complexity. Technical report, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University. download
• Sadedin, S. 2005. Selection, space and diversity: What can biological speciation tell us about the evolution of modularity? Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3611, 1131-1144. request reprint
• Sadedin, S. and Littlejohn, M.J. 2003. A spatially explicit individual-based model of reinforcement in hybrid zones. Evolution 57, 962-970. download
• Sadedin, S., Dybiec, B., and Briscoe, G. 2003. A toy model of faith-based systems evolution. Physica A 323, 715-725. download
• Sadedin, S., Dybiec, B., and Briscoe, G. 2002. Evolution of faith-based systems. In CSSS 2002 Students Papers, Santa Fe Institute.
• Sadedin, S. and Elgar, M.A. 1998. The influence of flock size and geometry on the scanning behaviour of spotted turtle doves, Streptopelia chinensis. Australian Journal of Ecology 23, 177-180. request reprint

• Green, D.G., Klomp, N.I., Rimmington, G.R. & Sadedin, S. 2006. Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Amsterdam: Springer-Verlag. purchase

• Green, D.G. and Sadedin, S. 2005. Interactions matter: complexity in landscapes and ecosystems. Ecological Complexity 2, 117-130.
• Halley, J.D., Warden, A. C., Sadedin, S. and Li, W. 2004. Rapid self-organized criticality: Fractal evolution in extreme environments. Physical Review E, 036118.

• Sadedin, S. 2004. Spatially explicit agent-based models of speciation by reinforcement and cultural evolution. Ph.D. Thesis, Monash University.
• Sadedin, S. 1999. An individual-based model of frog hybrid zone evolution, with implications for the reinforcement hypothesis. Honours thesis, Melbourne University.

History

• 2005 Research fellow, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University.
• 2004 Ph.D. School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
• 1999 BA/BSc(Hons.) The University of Melbourne.

• December 16 2005. 'Adaptation and self-organization in spatially explicit agent-based models of speciation.' Symposium: Autonomous Agency and the Evolution of Diversity, University of Melbourne.
• May 7 2004. 'Studying evolutionary biology through artificial life.' School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.
• November 2003. 'The evolutionary ecology of faith-based systems.' Postgraduate seminar, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.

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