Alan Cooper (born 1966) is a New Zealand evolutionary biologist and an ancient DNA researcher. He was involved in several important early ancient DNA studies, such as the first sequencing of moa genomes. He was the inaugural director of both the Henry Wellcome Ancient Biomolecules Centre at the University of Oxford from 2001–2005, and the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA at the University of Adelaide, South Australia from 2005–2019.In December 2019, the University of Adelaide dismissed him, citing "serious misconduct" for bullying staff and students. He was recruited by Charles Sturt University in 2023. Source: Wikipedia (en)