Experience

• 2018 to present - Adjunct Research Associate, James Cook University (Townsville, QLD, Australia)
• 2017 to present - STEM Careers Coordinator, Scitech (Perth, WA, Australia)
• 2016 to 2017 - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University (Townsville, QLD, Australia)

Research Disciplines

• Geology (0403)
• Geochemistry (0402)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding Knowledge (9701)
• Energy Exploration (8501)

Awards

• 2016 - Dean's Award for Higher Degree by Research Excellence (PhD, James Cook University)
• 2016 - Lystrosaurus Shield - best student paper (Paleontological Society of South Africa)
• 2012 - Magna Cum Laude; Distinction in Major; Distinction in Thesis: B.A. Geology, Carleton College (USA)
• 2006 - Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award - First Place, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

Other

• 2018 - The Leakey Foundation Research Grant (Malawi hominin project)
• 2016 - US National Science Foundation Grant (BCS-1638796) - PIs: Stevens, Roberts, O'Connor; SP: Hilbert-Wolf
• 2015 - The Explorers Club Exploration Fund Grant
• 2014 - AAPG Foundation Grant (Suzanne Takken Memorial Grant)
• 2010 - Grand Staircase Institute of Science Graduate Research Grant

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Journal Articles

• Dirks P, Roberts E, Hilbert-Wolf H, Kramers J, Hawks J, Dossetto A, Duval M, Elliott M, Evans M, Grün R, Hellstrom J, Herries A, Joannes-Boyau R, Makhubela T, Placzek C, Robbins J, Spandler C, Wiersma J, Woodhead J and Berger L (2017) The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife, 6. pp. 1-59
• Hawks J, Elliott M, Schmid P, Churchill S, DeRuiter D, Roberts E, Hilbert-Wolf H, Garvin H, Delezene L, Williams S, Feuerriegel E, Randolph-Quinney P, Kivell T, Laird M, Tawane G, DeSilva J, Bailey S, Brophy J, Meyer M, Skinner M, Tocheri M, VanSickle C, Walker C, Campbell T, Kuhn B, Kruger A, Tucker S, Gurtov A, Hlophe N, Hunter R, Morris H, Peixotto B, Ramalepa M, van Rooyen D, Tsikoane M, Boshoff P, Dirks P and Berger L (2017) New fossil remains of Homo naledi from the Lesedi Chamber, South Africa. eLife, 6. pp. 1-63
• Hilbert-Wolf H, Roberts E, Downie B, Mtelela C, Stevens N and O'Connor P (2017) Application of U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology to drill cuttings for age control in hydrocarbon exploration wells: a case example from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. AAPG Bulletin, 101 (2). pp. 143-159
• Mtelela C, Roberts E, Hilbert-Wolf H, Downie R, Hendrix M, O'Connor P and Stevens N (2017) Sedimentology and paleoenvironments of a new fossiliferous late Miocene-Pliocene sedimentary succession in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 129. pp. 260-281
• Hilbert-Wolf H, Roberts E and Simpson E (2016) New sedimentary structures in seismites from SW Tanzania: evaluating gas- vs. water-escape mechanisms of soft-sediment deformation. Sedimentary Geology, 344. pp. 253-262
• Roberts E, Todd C, Aanen D, Nobre T, Hilbert-Wolf H, O'Connor P, Tapanila l, Mtelela C and Stevens N (2016) Oligocene termite nests with in situ fungus gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, support a paleogene African origin for insect agriculture. PLoS ONE, 11 (6). pp. 1-17
• Spandler C, Hammerli J, Sha P, Hilbert-Wolf H, Hu Y, Roberts E and Schmitz M (2016) MKED1: a new titanite standard for in situ analysis of Sm–Nd isotopes and U–Pb geochronology. Chemical Geology, 425. pp. 110-126
• Wizevich M, Simpson E, Hilbert-Wolf H and Tindall S (2016) Development of large-scale seismites in Upper Cretaceous fluvial sandstones in a fault-proximal setting. Sedimentology, 63 (3). pp. 1719-1738
• Hilbert-Wolf H and Roberts E (2015) Giant seismites and megablock uplift in the East African Rift: evidence for Late Pleistocene large magnitude earthquakes. PLoS ONE, 10 (6). pp. 1-18
• Simpson E, Koch R, Heness E, Wizevich M, Tindall S, Hilbert-Wolf H, Golder K and Steullet A (2014) Sedimentology and Paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Wahweap Formation sag ponds adjacent to syndepositional normal faults, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. Cretaceous Research, 50. pp. 332-343
• Simpson E, Heness E, Bumby A, Eriksson P, Eriksson K, Hilbert-Wolf H, Linnevelt S, Malenda H, Modungwa T and Okafor O (2013) Evidence for 2.0 Ga continental microbial mats in a paleodesert setting. Precambrian Research, 237. pp. 36-50

Book Chapters

• Simpson E, Hilbert-Wolf H, Wizevich M and Tindall S (2013) Implications of the internal plumbing of a Late Cretaceous sand volcano: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah. In: At the Top of the Grand Staircase: the late Cretaceous of Southern Utah. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, USA, pp. 74-84

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