Andrew Robert Henry Swan
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE
United Kingdom
swan@kingston.ac.uk

The author graduated from Imperial College, London, with a BSc in Geology in 1978, and then gained a PhD at Leeds University in 1984 on numerical analysis of Carboniferous ammonoids, supervised by Bill Ramsbottom. After a year working with Bruce Saunders at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania and 3 years at University College Swansea, Wales, he gained a lectureship at his current place of work (Kingston University, London). He teaches palaeontology and statistical methods, and is currently Deputy Head of the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment.