Dr Alex Dunhill

Profile

I am an Associate Professor of Palaeobiology in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds.

My research focuses on large scale macroevolutionary and macroecological processes through deep time with a particular emphasis on late Palaeozoic and early Mesozoic mass extinction events and the accuracy of biodiversity data obtained from the fossil record. I am a member of the Earth Surface Science Institute and the Palaeo@Leeds Research Group.

I have a PhD from the University of Bristol and I am a graduate of the University of Sheffield. Prior to my faculty appointment, I was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Leeds and was previously a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellow in the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath.

Responsibilities

• Programme Leader for Environmental Science

Research interests

• See personal website for detail https://wordpress.com/view/amdunhill.wordpress.com

• Community And Structural Collapse During Mass Extinctions (CASCaDE)
• Ecosystem Recovery Following the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction
• Ecosystem resilience and recovery from the Permo-Triassic crisis (EcoPT)
• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship: Geographic and ecological determinants of extinction across the Late Triassic mass extinction
• Marie Curie International Fellowship: SurE-TESTS
• Refugia of Futures Past

Qualifications

• PhD in Geology (University of Bristol)
• MEnvSci (1st class) University of Sheffield

Professional memberships

• The Palaeontological Association (Ordinary Council Member)
• Yorkshire Geological Society

Research groups and institutes

• Earth Surface Science Institute
• Palaeo@Leeds

Current postgraduate researchers

• Amy Shipley
• Lydia Woods
• Meghan Jenkinson
• Lila Blake
• Annabel Nicholls