Sanchita Kumar. Palaeobotany and Palynology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Ranchi Road, Purulia-723104, India. kumarsanchita631@gmail.com
Sanchita Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate at Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University in India. She obtained a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Botany from the same university. The main focus of her research is on the reconstruction of the paleogeography of Cretaceous angiosperm plants using plant megafossils.
Tao Su. CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, China. sutao@xtbg.org.cn
Tao Su received his Ph.D. in Botany from the Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. He uses plant fossils to understand the biodiversity in response to paleoclimatic changes throughout the Cenozoic. Currently, he is studying several Neogene floras in SW China, e.g., Yunnan, and Tibet.
Robert A. Spicer. School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK; State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Resources and Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. ras6@open.ac.uk
Robert A. Spicer is an Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences in the School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences and a Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China. He trained initially as a botanist at Imperial College London and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in Geology, also at Imperial College. He was awarded the T.M. Harris medal for his 'lifetime achievement' in Palaeobotany. He has ongoing interests in using plant fossils as indicators of past climates with particular emphasis on polar environments at times of global warmth, the uplift of the Himalayas, the formation of the Tibetan Plateau, and the development of the Asian monsoon systems.
Mahasin Ali Khan. Palaeobotany and Palynology Laboratory, Department of Botany, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Ranchi Road, Purulia-723104, India. khan.mahasinali@gmail.com
Mahasin Ali Khan obtained a Ph.D. at Calcutta University. He is currently employed as an assistant professor at the Department of Botany, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, India. His primary focus of research is on the reconstruction of Cretaceous-Cenozoic climate changes using different qualitative and quantitative parameters and the past geography of Cretaceous-Cenozoic angiosperms using plant megafossil remains.
