Previous PhD students

Class of 2021

  • Minbo Qi: Deriving an accurate and precise timescale for the origin and evolution of vertebrate diversity (Chinese Scholarship Council)

Class of 2020

  • Madleen Grohganz: The evolutionary origin of teeth (NERC GW4+)
  • Rui Ying: Changes in planktic ecosystems through earth history – new insights using trait models (Chinese Scholarship Council)

Class of 2019

  • Emily Carlisle: Palaeobiology of the Kuanchuanpu Lagerstätte (University of Bristol)
  • Sophie Chambi-Trowell: Feeding and niche paritioning in Triassic-Jurassic sphenodontians (Tratman Fund)
  • Will Deakin: The influence of mechanical loads on skeletal form (NERC GW4+)
  • Joseph Flannery-Sutherland: The Carnian Pluvial episode (NERC GW4+)
  • Yizhou Huang: Biomarkers in the Early Triassic rocks of South China (Chinese Scholarship Council)
  • Zichuan Qin: Phylogeny and function of alvarezsaurian theropods (Chinese Scholarship Council)
  • Eleonora Rossi: The evolution of early metazoans and animal multicellularity, using the integration of multiple types of data
  • Andre Rowe

Class of 2018

  • Vicky Coules: Imaging dinosaurs through the years (Self). Vicky is a writer and film producer, part of the Hooded Crow company.
  • Marta Zaher: Macroevolution and function in parareptiles (Faculty of Science)