Sam Giles

Sam Giles
Alma materUniversity of Bristol (BSc)
University of Oxford (DPhil)
AwardsL'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsActinopterygii
Acanthodii
Placodermi
Virtual Palaeontology[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisHow to build a bony vertebrate in evolutionary time (2015)
Doctoral advisorMatt Friedman[2]
Websitehttps://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.

  1. ^ a b Sam Giles publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
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  3. ^ Sam Giles on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ Sam Giles publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ^ Callier, Viviane (2015-01-12). "Ancient fossil may rewrite fish family tree". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2021-01-02.