Andrew Rozefelds

Dr Andrew Rozefelds is Head of Geosciences Program in the Queensland Museum. Andrew rejoined the Queensland Museum in 2011, after working in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery as the Curator of Botany and then Deputy Director of Collections and Research. He previously worked at the Queensland Museum from 1977 to 1991. In 1991 he left the Museum to undertake further studies in Adelaide; and then completed a PhD in botany at the University of Melbourne, with one year spent at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. In 2016 he was awarded a Smithsonian-Queensland Fellowship to work at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and 2020 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for travel in 2021, which he took up in the following year.

He has written over 90 peer reviewed and popular articles. His current research interests involve studying the origins, evolution and history of the modern Australian flora. Andrew has used various experimental techniques to study living and fossil plant material, including synchrotron imaging at the Australian Synchrotron and MicroCT analysis. He has also published papers on fossil vertebrates and invertebrates, modern plant systematics and weed sciences, biographical research and other areas. He has described over 14 new species of living plants and a similar number of fossil plants. His current research is focussed on gaining a better understanding of the impacts of vulcanicity on the modern Australian flora.