Office hours
My office hours are:
Mondays 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Fridays 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Or we can arrange another time to meet over email
Dr Luis Huckstadt
Senior Lecturer
Ecology and Conservation
University of Exeter
Stella Turk Building
Penryn Campus
Penryn TR10 9FE
Dr Huckstadt is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter in Cornwall (England).
His research is motivated by his interest in understanding the role that large predators, particularly marine mammals, play in marine ecosystems, especially in areas more susceptible to human-induced climatic change such as upwelling and polar marine systems. To help to answer these questions, Dr Huckstadt uses powerful ecophysiological tools (e.g., Biologging, Stable Isotope Analyses, UAS, and Endocrinology) to improve our understanding of the link between changing environments and the at-sea behaviours of marine top predators.
Dr Luis Huckstadt was born and raised in Venezuela to Chilean parents and moved to Chile in his teens. After getting his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Marine Biology and Oceanography in Chile at the Universidad de Concepcion, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship and moved to the United States to pursue his PhD in Ocean Sciences at the University of California Santa Cruz, working on the feeding behaviour of Antarctic seals. Dr Huckstadt lived in the US for 17 years where, after completing his PhD, he worked as a PostDoc and Assistant Researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz. In 2021 Dr Huckstadt accepted a job offer at University of Exeter and has lived in England ever since.
Dr Huckstadt has extensive experience working on the ecophysiology of marine top predators. He has worked in California, Mexico, Galapagos, Chile, Uruguay, UK and Antarctica (where most of his research is based), with a wide range of species, including Northern and Southern elephant seals, California sea lions, Galapagos sea lions, South American sea lions, Weddell seals, crabeater seals, Emperor penguins, blue whales, and humpback whales, among many other species.
Qualifications:
2000 BSc Marine Biology (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) 2004 MSc Oceanography (Universidad de Concepción, Chile) 2012 PhD Ocean Sciences (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
