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Associate Professor Laura Wilson is an ARC Future Fellow and Head of Biological Anthropology at The Australian National University's School of Archaeology & Anthropology. She holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Zurich and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Kyoto University (JSPS) and UNSW (SNF/ARC DECRA). Her research focuses on mammalian evolution, 3D imaging techniques, and statistical shape analysis with applications in orthopaedics and paleontology.
Education: BSc (University College London), MRes Biosystematics (Imperial College London/Natural History Museum), PhD (University of Zurich). Professional roles include Senior Visiting Fellow at UNSW and Board Member of CSIRO Publishing. Active in fieldwork across Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Venezuela, and Morocco, particularly in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area.
Research interests span vertebrate morphology, echolocation evolution in bats, bone microstructure, and developmental biology. She leads the ARC Training Centre for Multiscale 3D Imaging, Modelling and Manufacturing (ANU-QUT collaboration). Recent work includes studies on monotreme evolution, bat vocal apparatus anatomy, and osteoarthritis biomechanics.
- Key Projects:
- ARC Training Centre for 3D Imaging (2019-2025)
- Bat echolocation origins (2021-2025)
- Scientific Recognition:
- ARC Future Fellowship (2021)
- ARC DECRA Fellowship (2015)
- Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc
Publications emphasize computational methods in anthropology, with over 78 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from fossil morphology to medical imaging applications. Active in multidisciplinary collaborations involving biomechanical modeling, phylogenetic analysis, and evolutionary developmental biology.
