
Dr Jakob Vinther
BSC(Copenhagen), MSC(Copenhagen), PHD(Copenhagen)
Current positions
Associate Professor in Macroevolution
School of Earth SciencesAssociate Professor in Macroevolution
School of Biological Sciences
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Research interests
My research spans the study of evolution from the perspective of the fossil record and other disciplines such as molecular biology.
I focus on invertebrate groups such as annelids and molluscs and test our ideas of their evolution and their fossil record with molecular biological techniques to obtain independent estimates of phylogeny and divergence timing.
I also have a particular interest in fossilization processes: Taphonomy. Currently I am working on the preservation of melanin in fossils and how we can use this evidence to reconstruct color patterns in feathered dinosaurs.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Melanic pigments in time and space.
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/03/2016 to 28/02/2017
Thesis supervisions
The influence of sulfurization and burial history on melanin chemistry during fossilization
Supervisors
A taphonomic and palaeoecological approach to the study of palaeocolour
Supervisors
Evolution of the Eumetazoan Body Plan
Supervisors
The taphonomy of soft tissues and the evolution of feathers
Supervisors
The braincase of ceratopsian dinosaurs
Supervisors
Understanding biases in reconstructing ancient marine ecosystems through the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
06/01/2025MirGeneDB 3.0
Nucleic Acids Research
A Cambrian spiny stem mollusk and the deep homology of lophotrochozoan scleritomes
Science
A giant stem-group chaetognath
Science Advances
A new interpretation of Pikaia reveals the origins of the chordate body plan
Current Biology
Non-avian dinosaur eggshell calcite can contain ancient, endogenous amino acids
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta