University of Malaya, Malaysia

Faculty Member, Institute of Biological Sciences

Deputy Dean

Institute of Graduate Studies

About

Norma-Rashid is an avid researcher on faunistic living treasures with an extensive field experience. Her job involves four domains – teaching, research, management & administration and providing scientific services to a wider community. The central theme of her research interest is behavioural ecology in the laboratory or various ecosytems (mangrove, marine, riverine, agricultural and forest)  in wide ranging animals (damselflies & dragonflies, ants, spiders, mudskippers, squirrels & primates). Currently, she has developed a passion for various aspects (biomonitoring, biocoenosis, ecomorphometrics, systematics, behaviour and ecology) of dragonflies and spiders. She has described a myriad of species found to be new local records or new to science promoting Malaysian megabiodiversity.