Jessica Worthington Wilmer is an Australian evolutionary biologist who has worked at the Queensland Museum since 2002.
Wilmer completed her secondary education at St Margaret's Anglican Girls' School in 1985.
Her thesis was "Genetic variation and population structure in the threatened ghost bat, Macroderma gigas".
[2] Wilmer moved to Melbourne in 1991 to work at La Trobe University before returning to UQ to research her PhD.
She manages the Molecular Identities Lab, where she has contributed to the description or redefinition of nearly 30 species and genera.