I am a Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow based at the Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich. I was formerly a NERC-funded postdoctoral researcher based in the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, and before that I completed my PhD in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
My main research interests are in Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, macroevolutionary patterns and processes (especially amongst Mesozoic vertebrates), biogeography, and the evolution of the ornithischian dinosaurs. See the links (right) for more details of my research, publications (including Nexus files), fieldwork and a CV. I will be adding more PDFs etc. in the near future.
I am the section editor for fossil reptiles at Zootaxa. If you are interested in submitting a taxonomic paper for consideration for publication in this journal then please contact me. I am also a contributor to The Paleobiology Database.
Contemplating the stunning landscapes of the Herschel District (South Africa) in early 2008 while searching for early dinosaur fossils. Image from here.
The early ornithischian dinosaur Eocursor parvus from the Late Triassic of South Africa, named by my colleagues and I in 2007 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Reconstruction by Scott Hartman
The tiny skull of a juvenile Heterodontosaurus tucki, described by my colleagues and I in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2008.