Professor John Montgomery

Appointed to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand in 2006, Professor John Montgomery holds a Personal Chair in Biological Sciences, and is the Chair of Marine Science at the University of Auckland, and Director of the Leigh Marine Laboratory. His scientific work sits at the interface of marine science and neuroscience and he has published extensively on fish sensory behaviour and physiology. His work has been recognised by an International Brain Research Organisation Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship and the New Zealand Physiological Society Gold Medal. Professor Montgomery was active in the NZ Antarctic Programme through the 1980s and into the early 1990s exploring fundamental questions of evolution, adaptation and sensory ecology of the Antarctic fish fauna.