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Dr

Liz Weldon

Associate Head of School (International)

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Marine Science

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  • Associate Head of School (International)
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Life and Environmental Sciences/Centre for Marine Science
  • +61 3 925 17191 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Liz completed her PhD in palaeontology at Deakin University and is now a senior lecturer in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences. Liz is also involved in the development of the School's international teaching and research profile in her role as Associate Head of School (International). Liz travels to Wuhan annually to teach in the Sino Foreign Partnership Program with Hubei University.

From 2004-2006 Liz was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan. Liz continues to collaborate on research with colleagues at CUG in the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and School of Earth Sciences, and at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (CAS). Liz's primary research interests are on the systematics, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of Permian brachiopods, molluscs and conulariids. In September 2024 Liz will commence in the role of Chair of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy, and is a current member of the Gondwana and Euroamerican Correlations Working Group.

Liz also works collegially with Museum staff and Deakin colleagues to provide supervision of a broad range of micro-, macro- and mega- fauna palaeontology-based projects, and has an interest in quantitative approaches to geoconservation.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Associate Head of School (International)
    Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Arts
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Science
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    Deakin University, Geelong, Australia1 Feb 1999 - 1 Nov 1999

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral
    China University of Geosciences, School of Earth Sciences, Wuhan, China1 Sep 2004 - 1 Aug 2006
    PalaeontologySupervised by Gong YM

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Geology
  • Ecology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Physical geography and environmental geoscience
  • Palaeontology (incl. palynology)

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • School of Life and Environmental Sciences

STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE

  • Centre for Marine Science

RESEARCH STRENGTHS