Kaylene is the Manager of Wonder of Science at the University of Queensland and a vertebrate palaeontologist. Kaylene joined Wonder of Science as a Program Officer in 2018 and has managed the program since 2022. Kaylene’s PhD research focused on extinct kangaroos from the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, Australia. While volunteering as a Young Science Ambassador from 2016 – 2018, during her PhD, she developed a passion for STEM education which sparked her career as a STEM educator and science communicator.
After obtaining her PhD from the University of Queensland, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queensland University of Technology before joining the Wonder of Science. She also has extensive experience as a science communicator having participated in school visits, STEM events, social media campaigns, and TV interviews such as “Totally Wild.”
