Sam Giles | |
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Alma mater | University of Bristol (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil) |
Awards | L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards (2017) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Actinopterygii Acanthodii Placodermi Virtual Palaeontology[1] |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | How to build a bony vertebrate in evolutionary time (2015) |
Doctoral advisor | Matt Friedman[2] |
Website | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/giles-sam.aspx |
Sam Giles is a palaeobiologist and Professor in Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Birmingham.[1][3][4] Her research combines modern imaging with fossils to understand the evolution of life, in particular that of early fish, and in 2015 "rewrote" the vertebrate family tree.[5] She was a 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO Rising Star and won the 2019 Geological Society of London Lyell Fund.
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