People
The Centre of Palaeobiology are a team of people who contribute to the research and academic teaching, with exceptional results.
Academic staff
- Professor Sarah Gabbott
- Professor Mark Williams
- Dr Tom Harvey
- Professor David Siveter (Emeritus)
- Professor Mark Purnell
- Dr David Unwin
- Professor Jan Zalasiewicz (Emeritus)
- Professor Jens Zinke
Research staff and students
- Neil Adams
- Rachel Belben
- Will Crabbe
- Stephen Himson
- Rachael Holmes
- Hedwig Krawczyk
- Anna McGairy
- Walid Naciri
- Chris Stockey
- Yasmin Yonan
- Manlin Zhang
Research visitors
- Dr Changshi Qi (Yunnan University, China)
- Professor Hou Xian-guang (Yunnan University, China)
- Dr Zheng Xiguang (Yunnan University, China)
- Professor Nigel Hughes (University of California Riverside)
Group alumni
| Name | PhD project title |
What are they doing now? |
| Dr Christopher Nedza | Pigmented and organically preserved soft-bodied fossils – using taphonomic mode to interpret anatomy. | |
| Dr James Wilkinson | Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the Ludlow (Silurian) graptolites. | |
| Dr Christopher Stocker | The biogeographical significance of the Silurian trilobite assemblages of Japan. | |
| Dr Jordan Bestwick | Resolving pterosaur dietary ecology using tooth microwear and biomechanics | |
| Dr Thomas Wong | Hearing Constraining the marine environment of the Cambrian metazoan adaptive radiation | Research Fellow, Ghent University |
| Dr Laura McLennan | Tooth wear and microtextural analysis of diet and feeding in living and fossil condrichthyans | Lecturer, Derby University |
| Dr Leah Nolan | Equatorial sea surface temperature seasonality in the Mississippian (Carboniferous) derived from brachiopod shell carbonate | |
| Dr Zardasht Taha | Response of Ostracods to the end Ordovician extinction and early Silurian recovery | |
| Dr Mark Evans | Evolution of Jurassic Plesiosauria | British Antarctic Survey |
| Dr Jawad Afzal | Palaeocene-Eocene Foraminifera of the Indus Basin, Pakistan | Currently working as biostratigrapher for Fugro Robertson |
| Dr Irfan Jan | Investigating the palaeoenvironments and narrow palaeoclimate zones of the Palaeotethyan Permo-Carboniferous icehouse: the boulder beds of the Salt Range, Pakistan | Currently Assistant professor National Centre for Excellence in Geology, University of Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Dr David Baines | Tooth microwear in fishes | |
| Dr Carys Bennett | Lower Carboniferous ostracods and isotopes of the Midland Valley, Scotland: testing for the ecological shift into non-marine environments | Currently Postdoc at University of Lille |
| Ben Davies | Functional morphology and locomotion of early vertebrates (MPhil) | |
| Dr David Jones | Exploiting the palaeobiological potential of conodonts: evolutionary trends, patterns and processes (PhD). Tooth wear and ecological constraints on isotopic & biostratigraphic analyses using conodonts (PDRA) | Went on to postdoc positions in Leicester and Bristol |
| Dr Xiaoya Ma | The Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China | University of Exeter, Senior Research Fellow |
| Dr David Riley | Taphonomy of the Herefordshire Lagerstätte | Currently working for Chemostrat Ltd |
| Dr Alex Page | Graptolitic mudrocks and the taphonomy of organic fossils | Currently teaching |
| Dr Rowan Whittle | Problematic fossils from the Late Ordovician Soom Shale lagerstätte, South Africa | Currently working for British Antarctic Survey |
| Dr Vince Williams | Tooth microwear, diet and feeding in ornithischian dinosaurs | Currently teaching |
Experimental/technical Staff
- Lin Marvin-Dorland - Scanning Electron Microscope Technician
Honorary research staff
- Dr Philip Donoghue (Bristol University)
- Dr Robert Goodall
- Dr Mike Howe (British Geological Survey)
- Dr Stewart Molyneux (British Geological Survey)
- Dr Victoria McCoy
- Dr Gary Mullins (Fugro Robertson Ltd)
- Dr Philip Wilby (British Geological Survey)