Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Ivan Sansom is currently undertaking research projects in the following areas:

The Ordovician radiation of fish: a Gondwanan perspective on diversification in fluctuating palaeoenvironments
Cambro-Ordovician fish from North America
The palaeobiology of Ordovician fish from South America
The origins and early evolution of vertebrate biomineralisation
The origin of the gnathostomes

Dr Sansom welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral researchers in his areas of interest.

1994 …2024

Research activity per year

Network

Sam Giles

Person: Academic

Andy Jones

Person: Academic, Academic-related

Luke Meade

Person: Academic

Laura Driscoll

Person: Honorary

Michael I Coates

  • University of Chicago
  • Imperial College London

External person

Moya Smith

  • King’s College London
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

External person

Plamen Andreev

  • Qujing Normal University

External person

M. P. Smith

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Wenjin Zhao

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

External person

Qiang Li

  • Qujing Normal University

External person

Zerina Johanson

  • The Natural History Museum

External person

Liantao Jia

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

External person

Chun-Chieh Wang

  • National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
  • University of Leeds

External person

M. Paul Smith

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Min Zhu

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

External person

Emma Randle

  • University of Birmingham

External person

RICHARD J. Aldridge

  • University of Leicester
  • University of Birmingham

External person

Jianhua Wang

  • Qujing Normal University

External person

Lauren Sallan

  • University of Pennsylvania

External person

Robert Sansom

  • University of Manchester

External person

Giles Miller

  • The Natural History Museum

External person

Lijian Peng

  • Qujing Normal University

External person

Tuo Qiao

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

External person

Anthony Shillito

  • University of Cambridge

External person

J. E. Repetski

  • U.S. Geological Survey

External person

DEREK E.G. BRIGGS

  • University of Bristol

External person

Mark Rivers

  • University of Chicago

External person

M. Smith

  • Imperial College London

External person

S. E.K. Sequeira

  • Imperial College London

External person

Jan L. den Blaauwen

  • University of Amsterdam

External person

Charlotte Bird

  • University of Birmingham

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Philippe Janvier

  • Museum Natl Hist Nat

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Andy Ko

  • Imperial College London

External person

Pete Turner

  • University of Birmingham

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Neil Davies

  • University of Cambridge

External person

Kristen Tietjen

  • University of Chicago

External person

John Finarelli

  • University College Dublin

External person

Matt Friedman

  • University of Michigan

External person

Xindong Cui

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

External person

M. Paul Smith

  • University of Oxford

External person

Katherine Criswell

  • University of Cambridge

External person

Patrick La Riviere

  • University of Chicago

External person

Joshua Hedge

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Nigel Larkin

  • University of Reading

External person

Steve Etches

  • The Etches Collection

External person

Min Zhu

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences

External person

Martin D Brazeau

  • Imperial College London
  • The Natural History Museum

External person

Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • University of Bristol

External person

Carole J. Burrow

  • Queensland Museum

External person

Thomas Henton

  • University of Birmingham

External person

Moya M. Smith

  • King’s College London

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