Academics

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Aaron Camens

Lecturer in Palaeontology

Expertise
  • Functional morphology
  • Fossil footprints
  • Palaeoecology
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Alice Clement

Research Fellow/Lecturer in Palaeontology

Expertise
  • Early vertebrates
  • Fish evolution
  • Brain evolution
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Mike Lee

Professor of Evolutionary Biology

Expertise
  • Phylogenetics & macroevolution
  • Herpetology
  • Palaeontology
John Long

John Long

Strategic Professor in Palaeontology

Expertise
  • Early vertebrates
  • Fish evolution
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Gavin Prideaux

Professor in Palaeontology

Expertise
  • Australian mammals
  • Kangaroo evolution
  • Palaeoecology
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Vera Weisbecker

Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology

Expertise
  • Marsupial evolution
  • Geometric morphometrics
Rod Wells

Rod Wells, AM

Professor Emeritus

Expertise
  • Marsupials & monotremes
  • Biomechanics
  • Wombats
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Trevor Worthy

Research Fellow, Palaeontology Group

Expertise
  • Fossil birds
  • Australian, New Zealand & Pacific faunas

Post-doctoral researchers

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Brian Choo

Casual Academic

Expertise
  • Silurian & Devonian fish
  • Early vertebrates
  • Palaeo art

Meg Martin

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Biomechanics
  • CT-scanning
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Rex Mitchell

Research Associate

Expertise
  • Skull function and evolution
  • Geometric morphometrics
  • Biomechanics
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Jacqueline Nguyen

Research Associate

Expertise
  • Osteology of passerine birds
  • Phylogenetics

Research support staff

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Carey Burke

Technical Officer in Palaeontology

Expertise
  • Fossil preparation
  • Molding & casting
  • Fieldwork management

Fraser Brown

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Pleistocene palaeontology.
  • Ichnology & trace fossils
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Rachel Correll

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Mammalian body-size ecology
  • Evolutionary ecology
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Diana Fusco

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Quaternary palaeoecology
  • Mammalian fossil fauna
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Jan Hill

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Fossil preparation
  • Palaeo art
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Warren Handley

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Dromornithids
  • CT data
  • Bird brain morphology
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Isaac Kerr

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Kangaroo systematics & taxonomy
  • Pleistocene fossils of New Guinea
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Ellen Mather

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Fossil eagles & vultures
  • Phylogenetics
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Elen Shute

Research Assistant

Expertise
  • Australian Quaternary bird fossils
  • Palaeoecology
  • Conservation

Research students

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Joshua Bland

Honours student

Project title: TBC

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Jacob Blokland

PhD candidate

Project title: A phylogenetic investigation of Oligocene-Miocene fossil ralloids (Aves, Ralloidea), and the origins of crown group Rallidae

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Arthur Crichton

PhD candidate

Project title: Pwerte Marnte Marnte: Characterising an Oligocene vertebrate fauna of central Australia

Austin Fitzpatrick

Austin Fitzpatrick

Honours student

Project title: A new species of placoderm fish from the Middle Devonian (380 Mya) of Mount Howitt

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Grant Gully

PhD candidate

Project title: Dietary evolution and palaeoecology of the extinct diprotodontoid marsupials

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Elise Kalderovskis

Honours student

Project title: [TBC]

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Annie Kraehe

PhD candidate

Project title: [TBC]

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Karl Lenser

Honours student

Project title: Pleistocene fossil shorebirds from the Naracoorte Caves

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Phoebe McInerney

PhD candidate

Project title: Reconstruction of Genyornis newtoni crania and semicircular canals for palaeoecological and phylogenetic inference

Corinne Mensforth

PhD candidate

Project title: Brain endocast relationships in living and extinct vertebrates

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Tim Niederer

PhD candidate

Project title: [TBC]

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Lisa Nink

PhD candidate

Project title: Comparing the early Pleistocene mammalian faunas of inland and coastal southeastern Australia

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Rachel Oertel

PhD candidate

Project title: An in-depth analysis of the Miocene Mammalian fauna of Corra Lynn Cave and its implications for the environment of South Australia

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Maddison Randall

Honours student

Project title: [TBC]

Cate Sexton

Cate Sexton

Honours student

Project title: Taphonomy of a Pleistocene-age vertebrate collection from the Flinders Ranges

Jacob van Zoelen

PhD candidate

Project title: Systematics and evolution of late Cenozoic diprotodontid marsupials