The Bristol Palaeobiology and Biodiversity Group (BPBG) consists of fifty or more people - staff, postdocs, honorary
research fellows, PhD students, MSc students, and MSci students. Current staff and postdoctoral fellows are listed below, and PhD students
here. Since 1990, over 100 PhD students and postdocs from the BPBG have gone on to employment, and we give
details of what they are now doing here.
STAFF
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS
- 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 Kenneth De Baets: Reconstructing parasite phylogeny (SNF Fellow)
- Dr Laura Foster: Ocean acidification in deep time (Private sponsor)
- 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 Maria McNamara: Colour in the feathers of fossil birds and dinosaurs (PDRA on NERC grant).
- Dr. Duncan Murdock: Shedding synchrotron light on the fossil record of early plant evolution (PDRA on NERC grant).
- Dr Federica Ragazolla: Ocean acidification and responses of the marine benthos in the Southern Ocean (PDRA on Leverhulme grant).
- Dr Imran
Rahman: Early evolution of the echinoderm body plan (NERC Postdoc.; jointly with
University of Birmingham).
- Dr
Martin Rücklin: Evolution and development of jaws and teeth in placoderms (EU
Marie Curie Research Fellow).
- Dr
Manabu Sakamoto: Phylogeny, disparity, and biomechanics in living and fossil cats
(PDRA on BBSRC grant). Contact.
- Dr Bettina Schirrmeister: Early diversification of Cyanobacteria (SNF Fellow).
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)
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