Caitlin Mudge

Research Assistant

College of Science and Engineering

caitlin.mudge@flinders.edu.au

Bedford Park

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

I am a palaeogeneticist interested in understanding past biodiversity change in Australia during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. I use ancient DNA to investigate mammalian responses to climate change through time and how faunal distributions have changed since European arrival in 1788. I completed my PhD in 2023 looking at cryptic diversity in native rodents, phylogeography of the western quoll, and distribution of thylacines across the Bassian Isthmus. I am currently a research assistant with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage developing the SahulTraits database.