PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Wenjing is a postdoctoral researcher fellow at Southern Cross University. She received her BsC at China University of Geosciences (China), joint MA degree at Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS (France) and Université Rovira i Virgili (Spain), and Ph.D. degree at La Trobe University. She is working on US-ESR dating of mammal fossil teeth South Africa and Southeast Asia. This work will help to understand the relationship of Paranthropus, early Homo and Australopithecus in South Africa, as well as other key non hominin taxa such as Dinofelis. The dating results will further contribute to the understanding of the formation of hominin-bearing palaeokarst in South Africa and Southeast Asia. She has worked as a heritage officer for Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Cooperation. She has archaeology fieldwork experiences in France, Italy, China and South Africa.    

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Atkinson, M., Brodie, A., Kafcaloudes, P., McCarthy, S., Monson, E. A., Sefa-Nyarko, C., ... & Yu, W. (2022). Illuminating the liminality of the doctoral journey: precarity, agency and COVID-19. Higher Education Research & Development, 41(6), 1790-1804.

Yu, W., Herries, A. I., & Joannes-Boyau, R. (2022). Using X-rays as an irradiation source for direct ESR dating of fossil teeth. Quaternary Geochronology, 72, 101372.

Yu, W., Zhang, J., Herries, A. I., Bailey, M., & Joannes-Boyau, R. (2022). ESRfrag: A new suite of open access programs for the efficient handling of Electron Spin Resonance spectra of enamel fragments. Quaternary geochronology, 71, 101335.