Find out about our current PhD candidates and their research
Our Centre is equally devoted to education and research, and nowhere else is this more evident than the number of PhD candidates that we are proud to call members.
Tseren Byambasuren Thesis Title: Understanding Faunal and Cultural Change in Mongolian Rock Art. Supervisory Team: Prof. Michael Petraglia (Griffith University), Distinguished Prof. Paul Tacon (Griffith University), Dr Andrea Jalandoni (Griffith University) | Nikita Coleshill Thesis Title: The Genetic Analysis of the two Kings of Sunda Supervisory Team: A/Prof. Jeremy Brownlie (Griffith University), Dr Mark de Bruyn (Griffith University), Adj Prof. David Lambert (Griffith University) |
Yuxin Ding Thesis Title: Reconstruction of Australian Feral Cats Evolutionary History Supervisory Team: Prof. Julien Louys (Griffith University), Dr Mark de Bruyn (Griffith University), Prof. Nicole Boivin (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) | Anjali Muthukrishnan Thesis Title: Deep time extinctions informed by DNA in Australian underwater caves Supervisory Team: Prof. Julien Louys (Griffith University), Dr Mark de Bruyn (Griffith University), Dr Yinika Perston (Griffith University), Prof. Nicole Boivin (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) |
Andrew Prentice Thesis Title: Modelling Social Dynamics: Landscape Archaeology, Archaeogaming, and Machine Learning Supervisory Team: A/Prof. Carney Matheson (Griffith University), Dr Andrea Jalandoni (Griffith University) | Joshua Rowe Thesis Title: Ergodic Ecology: Retrospective analysis of the space-time equivalence assumption Supervisory Team: Prof. Julien Louys (Griffith University), A/Prof. Ali Chauvenet (Griffith University) |
Benyamin Shidqi Thesis Title: Palaeoenvironment of Padang Highlands: Strontium as an indicator of faunal migration Supervisory Team: Prof. Julien Louys (Griffith University), Dr Mathew Stewart (Griffith University), Dr Gilbert Price (University of Queensland) | Meg Walker Thesis Title: Deep Time Extinctions and Environment in Australian Underwater Caves Supervisory Team: Prof. Julien Louys (Griffith University), Prof. Michael Petraglia (Griffith University) |
Ashleigh Clarke Thesis Title: Taphonomy of soft and biomineralised tissues in extreme depositional environments Supervisory Team: Prof. Sarah Cresswell (Griffith University), A/Prof. Carney Matheson (Griffith University), Dr Edda Guareschi (Murdoch University), A/Prof. Paola Magni (Murdoch University) | Bradley Drummond Thesis Title: Damage to DNA and the Implications on DNA TPPR, Source Attribution and Activity Level Propositions Supervisory Team: A/Prof. Carney Matheson (Griffith University), Dr Dan Nana Osei Bonsu (Griffith University), Ms Donna MacGregor (Queensland University of Technology) |
Samantha Webster Thesis Title: Therapeutics to Treat Mucosal Surface Pathogens: A New Frontier Supervisory Team: A/Prof. Carney Matheson (Griffith University), Dr Ian Cock (Griffith University), Prof. Kate Seib (Griffith University), Dr Stineke Van Houte (University of Exeter) | Kristy Winter Thesis Title: Documentation of Missing and Unidentified Persons for Identification Supervisory Team: A/Prof. Carney Matheson (Griffith University), Ms Donna MacGregor (Queensland University of Technology) |