Susannah M. Porter | |
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| Alma mater | Yale, Harvard |
| Known for | Studies of early life |
| Awards | Fellow of the Paleontological Society |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology |
| Institutions | UCLA, UC Santa Barbara |
| Doctoral advisor | Andrew Knoll |
Susannah M. Porter is an American paleontologist and geobiologist who studies the early evolution of eukaryotes, the early Cambrian fossil record of animals, and the evolution of skeletal biomineralization. She is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Porter is a Fellow of the Paleontological Society. She has received national recognition awards from the Geological Society of America.