ZANTHÉ KOTZE is pursuing her PhD in the FLIES Facility. She obtained her undergraduate, honours and Masters degrees in Entomology from the University of Pretoria, South Africa with her research focusing on the effects of temperature on the growth and development of forensically important species. Recently, she worked for the South African Police Service for 18 months as a forensic analyst in the Victim Identification Center. Her PhD will investigate inter- and intra-specific interactions of flies on a carrion resource.