Wan F.A. Jusoh is currently a Senior Lecturer in Biodiversity and Conservation at the School of Science, Monash University Malaysia. Before joining Monash University, Wan worked as a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore for five years. Between 2015 and 2017, she worked as a Senior Programme Officer at WWF-Malaysia, lobbying for the protection of Setiu Wetlands, Terengganu.

Wan conducts research at the intersection of biodiversity research and historical natural heritage – from studying flashing fireflies to reconstructing timelines of how ecosystems have evolved. Her primary research aims to develop a comprehensive species database using combined approaches from field, laboratory, museum, library and archives.

Integrative taxonomy and systematics of fireflies

Firefly beetles (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) comprise over 2,000 species globally. The subfamily Luciolinae—all of which are exclusively flashing fireflies—represents a diverse subfamily distributed across Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific islands. With her collaborators, Wan seeks to explore the systematics of fireflies and other bioluminescent beetles of SE Asia and the Australopacific region. Her research team uses various analyses derived from morphological and molecular data, behaviour, and ecology, culminating in taxonomic revisions.

Story of species – towards making the digitised historical and type specimen data accessible

On minor but significant research, Wan is keen on developing and mobilising species-based digital data from museum collections, particularly material collected from SE Asia in former colonial museums. In collaboration with historians and museum curators, she explores the history of collections, collectors and taxonomists to digitally 'repatriate' original specimens (historical and type specimens) collected from Singapore, Malaysia and other countries in SE Asia.

Global and national assessments of fireflies

With the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) – Firefly Specialist Group, Wan assesses fireflies' conservation status in SE Asia. She also assesses fireflies' conservation status for Singapore's Red Data Book 3rd edition.

• BIO3820 – Tropical Terrestrial Biology
• ENV2726 – Global Conservation & Biodiversity
• SCI2800 – Human Ecology & Biodiversity