Culum Brown did his PhD at the University of Queensland and post-docs at Cambridge, Edinburgh and the Smithsonian (Panama). He lectured in Animal Behaviour at the University of Canterbury and now has a fellowship at Macquarie University where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and is Director of Higher Degree Research. His primary research examines comparative cognition in fishes. He has editorial roles on the journals Animal Behaviour and Fish Biology.