Daniel Franklin

Professor Daniel Franklin is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Forensic Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. His research focuses on developing alternative techniques for identifying unknown skeletal remains, with notable involvement in the Batavia mutiny excavation and the Australian Research Council project on maritime archaeology. He has published over 140 articles and secured $930k in research funding since 2004.

Education: PhD awarded in 2006. Research interests include forensic anthropology, morphometrics, skeletal biology, and maritime archaeology. He serves on editorial boards for Forensic Science International: Reports and the Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences.

His recent articles explore non-union fractures, population affinity via CT scans, age estimation methods, and Bronze Age tombs in Saudi Arabia. He leads 15 grants, including projects on shipwrecks and Dutch East India Company collections. Advises 23 students and supervises datasets like the CFA Human non-human origin species identification project.