About Erin Hahn
Erin is a conservation geneticist working at the Australian National Wildlife Collection at CSIRO in Canberra, Australia. She is working to enable whole genome sequencing and characterisation of gene expression from formalin-preserved museum tissues. Her research is delivering new data streams with which to study how species have historically responded to our changing environment. Erin received her PhD from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. Her doctoral work on endangered Sonoran pronghorn enabled wildlife managers to identify appropriate captive individuals for mating and release and was the first study characterising population epigenetics in an endangered species. Erin is a passionate science communicator and educator and is a Science and Technology Australia Superstar of STEM alumnus.
