Paul Wignall
School of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom

Paul Wignall is Professor of Palaeoenvironments at the University of Leeds. He has been interested in the end-Permian mass extinction for 20 years and has recently extended his extinction interests to include the end-Guadalupian, end-Triassic and Early Jurassic events. He has published around 90 papers and 2 books on these topics and his other main research interest black shales and their palaeoenvironments.