Collaborators
Robert maintains active collaborations with researchers around the world, including many of the former members of the lab.
Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues (Smithsonian Institution, D.C.)
Hans currently holds the position of Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., where he maintains an active research program that is equally diverse to that of Robert. His focus is primarily directed toward Mesozoic tetrapods, in particular archosauromorphs. Hans also spent ten years (1992-2002) as a curator at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) where he was also a faculty at the University of Toronto. Museum webpage // Google Scholar // Academia // ResearchGate |
Dr. David Berman
Now retired, Dave was formerly a Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA. He has a long and distinguished career and has been one of Robert's most frequent collaborators on projects pertaining to Paleozoic tetrapods. ResearchGate |
Dr. Jason Anderson (University of Calgary, Calgary, AB)
Jason received his Ph.D. from McGill University, where he studied under Robert's former supervisor, Bob Carroll, before coming to UTM as a post-doc. He is currently a professor in the Department of Comparative Anatomy and Experimental Medicine at the University of Calgary. Jason maintains an active lab and research program that focuses primarily on early tetrapod evolution and systematics. Lab website // Google Scholar |
Dr. Hillary Maddin (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON)
A former M.Sc. alum of the lab, Hillary went on to do her Ph.D. at the University of Calgary, where she studied the caecilian braincase under the supervision of Jason Anderson. She is currently a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University. Hillary's current research on morphological evolution of amphibians in deep time bridges the fossil record of extinct taxa with comparative studies of modern taxa, and she has been expanding her research program into the evo-devo side of biology in recent years and just this past year started up her own axolotl colony. Lab website // Google Scholar // ResearchGate |
Dr. David Evans (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON)
A former Ph.D. student of the lab, David made the short trek downtown to the ROM after he graduated, where he has been ever since. He currently holds the position of Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and is also cross-appointed at the University of Toronto (St. George campus). David maintains an active lab and research program focused primarily on Cretaceous dinosaurs, with active fieldwork collaborations from both near (Alberta) and far (Sudan). He is, without a doubt, the most active Twitter user of any current or former member of this lab and an excellent source for the latest news in paleontology. Lab webpage // Google Scholar |
Dr. Joseph Bevitt (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, NSW)
Joseph is an instrument scientist on the DINGO radiography/tomography/imaging instrument and head of the Bragg Institute User Office at ANSTO where he oversees the management of the OPAL nuclear reactor and associated instruments (such as DINGO). Although his academic background is in chemistry, he is our main collaborator on the neutron imaging projects that our lab has recently begun and is extremely enthusiastic about constantly trying to maximize the data quality of the instruments. Institution webpage // Google Scholar // ResearchGate |
Dr. Koen Stein (Free University of Brussels)
Koen is a post-doctoral fellow based at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS). He has a focus on bone histology and preservation of biomolecules in fossilized specimens, with particular expertise in sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Personal website // Google Scholar // ResearchGate |
Dr. Sean Modesto (Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS)
A former Ph.D. alum of the lab, Sean is currently a professor in the Department of Biology at Cape Breton University. He is one of Robert's most frequent collaborators, primarily on captorhinids and parareptiles, so it is no surprise that one of his former students and recent Ph.D. alum Mark MacDougall also ended up in the lab with similar interests in the reptiles of the early Permian. University webpage // ResearchGate |
Bill May (Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK)
Bill is a longtime collaborator of the lab and a frequent source of many of the amazing fossils that our lab studies. Over many years of hands-on collection from the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry and the preparation and sorting of material, he has accrued a wealth of specimens from the locality that can rival any museum's, and his knowledge and familiarity with the animals preserved there is unrivaled. Museum webpage |