Guy Harrington
School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT
United Kingdom

Guy belongs to a rare, almost extinct, tribe of palaeontologists who study Cenozoic pollen and spores.  His initial exposure to pollen came via a final year dissertation at the University of Keele (1994).  He undertook a Holocene pollen project for his Masters at the University of Cambridge (1996) before seeing the light and descending down column to the Palaeogene for a Ph.D (1999) at the University of Sheffield.  Postdoctoral appointments followed at the National University of Ireland, Cork and the Smithsonian Institution before he landed his current position as a Lecturer in Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham.  In between shuffling bits of paper around his office, admin work and teaching, Guy works on the Palaeocene–Eocene boundary from North America.  He has also started work on the Eocene and Oligocene from the Pacific Northwest.  In his spare time he plays the viola, goes to the gym, enjoys a drink or two and dreams of doing ever more interesting things with palynomorphs.