Dr Tony Gill is a regular visitor to the fish shop here at the Australian Museum where he continues his prolific work on dottybacks, basslets and gobies and happily assists in any collection related queries and identifications.
Tony has been associated with the fish section of the Australian Museum for over 40 years, beginning with a student internship in 1981. After receiving his PhD from the University of New England in 1991, based on research conducted at the Museum, Tony was later a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow in the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. and Lerner-Gray Research Fellow in the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
Tony then moved to London where he was shallow marine fish researcher at the Natural History Museum, London, followed by museum curator in the School of Life Sciences and assistant director for collections in the International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University.
After returning to Australia in 2010 to take up the role of Natural History Curator at the Macleay Museum (now Macleay Collections, Chau Chak Wing Museum), Tony continued his research interests on the systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific fishes (particularly dottybacks, gobies and basslets), on the anatomy and classification of spiny-finned fishes, and on the history of natural history collections. Most recently, his research has concentrated on the systematics of Australian basslets (Anthiadinae).
We are very proud to call Tony a research associate of the fish section and look forward to seeing him more this year.