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Alan Cooper is a Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Change at the Gulbali Institute, Albury-Wodonga. His research focuses on ancient DNA, environmental changes, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding human and ecological history. He leads international teams tackling topics like human migration, geomagnetism's role in evolution, and microbiology-driven health issues.
Cooper earned his PhD in Molecular Evolution from Victoria University of Wellington. He previously directed the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide and the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecule Centre at Oxford University. His work spans climate change, genomics, and paleontology, with notable contributions to studies of Pleistocene extinctions and solar weather impacts.
Research interests include environmental DNA, microbiomes, climate change, and solar-geomagnetic interactions. Notable projects include analyzing ancient human dispersal out of Africa and investigating a global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago linked to geomagnetic changes.
He has received prestigious awards like the ARC Federation Fellowship (2004), Eureka Prize (2017), and Philip Leverhulme Prize (2002). His lab collaborates globally, integrating fields like geology, biology, and physics to address large-scale scientific questions.
