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APrf Emma Sherratt (She/Her)

Academic Lead

emma.sherratt@adelaide.edu.au

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Organisation unit

College of Science School of Biological Sciences

Other role

Program Director

Organisation unit

College of Science School of Biological Sciences

My skills

anatomy & morphology

biological sciences

evolutionary biology

morphometrics

phylogenetic comparative methods

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Contact details

emma.sherratt@adelaide.edu.au

About me

Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Science
Lead of the Quantitative Morphology Group: our research aims to understand how the morphological diversity of animals and plants we see around us came about by evolution
Academic Lead (with Graduate Research portfolio), School of Biological Sciences, College of Science
Program Director for the legacy Bachelor of Science (Advanced) and Bachelor of Science (Advanced)(Honours) programs.

Educated in the UK, postdocced around the USA and Australia. Formerly an Australian Council Future Fellow (2020-2023). I've been a tenured research-teaching academic at Adelaide University (originally University of Adelaide) since 2023.
Previous administrative roles: Director of Science Programs (UoA), ATP (Academic Transition Panel for merger) for Science

AU course coordinator for Evolutionary Biology 3 Theory (BIOL3035)
AU course lecturer for Molecular Methods in Ecology and Evolution (BIOL 3033)

Associate Editor for journals Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society (Oxford Academic) and Evolution (Oxford Academic).
Member of the Australian Society of Herpetologists, Australian Evolution Society, Society for the Study of Evolution, and the World Lagomorph Society.

Last updated on 03/08/2026 by Emma Sherratt