Tag: Jason A. Dunlop
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Jason has been interested in arachnids since childhood — receiving a pet tarantula for his 16th birthday. He studied zoology in the Department of Pure and Applied Biology at the University of Leeds (1988–91), and followed this with a PhD in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Manchester (1991–94). This had the title “Palaeobiology of the trigonotarbid arachnids”, an extinct arachnid group, and was carried out under the supervision of Dr Paul Selden. He remained in Manchester for a further three years (1994–97) on a NERC postdoctoral research fellowship entitled “Origins and early radiation of the chelicerates”. Since 1997 he has been curator of arachnids, myriapods and stem-group arthropods at the Museum for Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany. His principal research interests remain the use of fossil arachnids for answering larger evolutionary questions, as well as the comparative morphology of living and extinct arachnids and their relatives. Together with co-workers, he has compiled a regularly updated list of all known fossil arachnids described in the literature. He is currently Secretary of the International Society of Arachnology, Vice-President of the European Society of Arachnology and a handling editor for papers on terrestrial arthropods submitted to the journal Palaeontology.
Contact Details:
Dr. Jason A. Dunlop, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany.