Rate My Professor Lauren Meyer

Dr Lauren Meyer is a Lecturer in Applied Marine Ecology in the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University. She holds a PhD in Biology awarded by Flinders University in 2019. Her academic background includes studies in general biology and medicine in the United States before she relocated to Australia to pursue marine biology research.

Dr Meyer specialises in trophic ecology with a focus on biochemical ecology and ecotoxicology, particularly the diets, energy dynamics, and impacts of human activities such as cage-diving tourism on white sharks and other elasmobranchs. She has developed and applied techniques including fatty acid analysis and non-lethal biopsy methods for free-swimming sharks. Her research has contributed to new tourism assessment frameworks adopted by the South Australian Department of Environment and Water and influenced adaptive management approaches to white shark tourism policy. Dr Meyer previously held a Research Associate position at Flinders University co-funded by the Georgia Aquarium and has conducted fieldwork on species including tiger sharks and endangered skates. She is a co-founder of Otlet, a global open-access platform for sharing biological samples, and Shark Share Global. Her contributions have been recognised with the 2020 SA Young Achiever Award for STEM and Innovation, the 2020 Early Career Alumni Award from Flinders University, and the HDR Student Research Impact Prize. Her methods for shark fatty acid analysis have gained international adoption within the research community.