STAFF AND RESEARCH FELLOWS

• Professor Michael Benton: fossil reptiles, especially Triassic; origin of dinosaurs; mass extinctions; cladistics; fossil record quality.
• Dr Phil Donoghue: origin of vertebrates, conodonts, evo-devo topics.
• Mr Ed Drewitt: Bristol Dinosaur Education Officer (HLF funded).
• Dr Erica Hendy: past climates from corals and caves (RCUK Academic Fellow).
• Dr Emily Rayfield: engineering approaches to dinosaurian biomechanics.
• Dr Daniela Schmidt: Foraminifera; climate evolution (Royal Society University Research Fellow)
• Mr Remmert Schouten: fossil preparator; MSc teaching technician.
• Mr Pedro Viegas: Bristol Dinosaur Project fossil preparator (HLF funded).

• Dr Phil Anderson: biomechanics of fossil fishes (Temporary Lecturer).
• Dr Jonathan Antcliffe: Ediacaran to Cambrian transition (1851 Exhibition Fellowship)
• Dr Marcus Badger: Biomarkers and climate change (Temporary Lecturer).
• Dr Jen Bright: Form and function in living and extinct mammals (PDRA on BBSRC grant)
• Dr John Cunningham: early embryos and the origin of Metazoa (NERC postdoc.).
• Dr David Jones: preservation of conodonts (Marie Curie postdoc., Melbourne and Bristol)
• Dr Stefanie Klug: Novelties and phylogeny in the evolutionary radiation of modern sharks and rays (EU Marie Curie Research Fellow)
• Dr Jéremy Martin: The significance of stable isotopes as dietary indicators in ancient terrestrial ecosystems (EU Marie Curie Research Fellow)
• Dr Martin Rücklin: Evolution and development of jaws and teeth in placoderms (EU Marie Curie Research Fellow).
• Dr Marcello Ruta: tetrapod phylogeny through the end-Permian mass extinction (NERC Advanced Research Fellow)
• Dr Manabu Sakamoto: Phylogeny, disparity, and biomechanics in living and fossil cats (PDRA on BBSRC grant). Contact.
• Dr James Tarver: MicroRNAs, genomic evolution and the emergence of anatomical complexity (EU Marie Curie Research Fellow). Contact.

HONORARY RESEARCH FELLOWS

• Dr Natasha Bakhurina: pterosaurs from Russia and Asia
• Ms Lorie Barber: palaeontological conservation and preparation
• Dr Simon Braddy: early terrestrial arthropods; trace fossils; eurypterids
• Professor Derek Briggs FRS (Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University): experimental taphonomy; evolutionary significance of exceptionally preserved fossils; Burgess Shale.
• Dr Liz Cook (Researcher at the BBC Natural History Unit): taphonomy and sedimentology of vertebrate-bearing deposits. Contact .
• Dr Allison Daley: basal arthropod morphology and phylogeny.
• Emeritus Professor David Dineley: fossil fishes: Devonian.
• Professor Desmond Donovan: Mesozoic stratigraphy, cephalopods
• Dr Howard Falcon-Lang (Senior Lecturer, Royal Holloway College, University of London): fossil plant record of pre-Quaternary global change.
• Dr Pam Gill: Kuehneotherium and the relationships of Mesozoic mammals (PDRA on NERC grant).
• Dr Allan Insole: mammalian palaeontology. Contact .
• Dr Chris Paul: fossil echinoderms; quality of fossil record. Contact .
• Dr Judyth Sassoon: Mesozoic marine reptiles
• Dr Mike Taylor: sauropod dinosaurs
• Dr David Whiteside: Triassic-Jurassic fissures and their faunas
• Dr Mark Wilkinson (Natural History Museum): Phylogenetic method; caecilian evolution.
• Dr Bill Wimbledon: Jurassic-Early Cretaceous stratigraphy and palaeobiology
• Dr Zhang Fucheng: exceptionally preserved Early Cretaceous birds from Liaoning (Royal Society/ Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor)