Dr. Kelly Meiklejohn joined Western Sydney University as an Associate Professor in Forensic Science in 2025. Prior to joining WSU, Dr. Meiklejohn was a PostDoctoral Research Fellow with the Counterterrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit of the FBI Laboratory and more recently spent nearly 8 years as an academic at North Carolina State University. Her research program is focused on harnessing the capabilities of newer genetics and genomics methodologies to recover more information from traditional forensic evidence and analyze previously overlooked sources of biological evidence. Dr. Meiklejohn completed her doctoral work at the University of Wollongong on the forensically important Australian flesh flies.

2023-2025            

Associate Professor of Forensic Science (with tenure), Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program, Dept. of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

2018-2023               

Assistant Professor of Forensic Science, Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program, Dept. of Population Health and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

2014-2017               

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, FBI Laboratory, Counterterrorism Forensic Science Research Unit, Quantico, VA, USA

2012-2013              

Post-Doctoral Associate, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA