Christine Lynette Lambkin is an

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

and scientific illustrator, and Curator of Entomology at the Queensland Museum.

Career

Lambkin began her career as a science teacher in Sydney and Brisbane after graduating from the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = B ...

with a Bachelor of Science and Diploma of Education in 1976. She then became a Scientific Illustrator at the Queensland Museum in 1986, then with the

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Division of Entomology, Long Pocket, Queensland in 1993. In 1994 Lambkin completed a Certificate of Visual Art and Design at the Queensland College of Art. In 1995 she joined The Department of Entomology at the University of Queensland as a Scientific Illustrator and Research Assistant. In 2001 she attained a PhD at the University of Queensland, and became a Post-doctoral Fellow (2001–2005) and Research Scientist (2003-2006) at the CSIRO Division of Entomology, Canberra. In 2004 Lambkin was a visiting Post Doctoral Fellow at

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, in their Department of Entomology. In 2006, Lambkin returned to the Queensland Museum as the Curator of Entomology. She was the President of Entomological Society of Queensland in 2008, and in 2015 was awarded an Honorary Membership.

Awards

March 1997: Australian Postgraduate Award, PhD, 1997 - 2000, University of Queensland August 2014: Peter Doherty Awards 2014 - Science Education Partnership Award for the Queensland Museum community engagement program, Backyard Explorer. March 2015: Honorary Membership of the

Entomological Society of Queensland Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

References

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