Li Tian. State Key Laboratory of Geomicrobiology and Environmental Changes, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), No. 68 Jincheng Street, Weilaisan Road，Wuhan, 430078.
tianlibgeg@cug.edu.cn

Li Tian has been trained at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) and University of Bristol as paleontological Ph.D student and postdoctoral associate in 2015 and 2019, respectively. His research is not just focusing on biostratigraphy and paleoecology of Ediacara and Triassic but also exploring ways to integrate the modern biotic data with geological records. He is running a marine ecology simulation lab as a PI, with a handful of geology and biology students involved.

Jonathan M.G. Perry. Department of Physical Therapy Education, College of Health Sciences - Northwest, Western University of Health Sciences, 2665 S. Santiam Hwy., Lebanon, Oregon, 97355, U.S.A. jperry@westernu.edu

Jonathan M. G. Perry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy Education at Western University of Health Sciences in Lebanon, OR, USA. He earned a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Palaeontology at the University of Alberta in 1998, a Master of Science in Systematics and Evolution at the University of Alberta in 2001, a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy at Duke University in 2008, and then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stony Brook University. His research focuses on the chewing system in primates, the interplay between diet and dental morphology, and the early evolution of primates.

Sergio Álvarez-Parra
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
sergio@nigpas.ac.cn

Sergio is a biologist specialized in palaeontology, who received his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona in 2023. He is currently working as a Special Research Assistant at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the taxonomy and palaeobiology of fossil insects preserved as both compressions in rock and bioinclusions in amber, with a primary emphasis on the orders Hymenoptera and Psocodea. Additionally, he is interested in taphonomy, aiming to elucidate the formation of the amber-bearing outcrops and understand the preservation of amber itself. Sergio has gained experience through research stays at institutions such as the University of Oxford, the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, and the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, as well as by participating in several fieldworks in Spain and China.

Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin. Department of Bioengineering and Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada. alexandre.demers-potvin@mail.mcgill.ca

Dr. Alexandre Demers-Potvin has dedicated most of his palaeontological research to understanding Late Cretaceous North American non-marine ecosystems and their denizens across a wide taxonomic span, from new fossil insect species in Subarctic Canada to new dinosaur finds in Alberta and Saskatchewan. He has also pursued parallel projects on plesiosaur biology and joined expeditions further afield, from the Andean foothills of Colombia to the Sahara Desert of Niger. The present paper is a key component of his PhD thesis on the palaeoecology of Dinosaur Provincial Park.

Jonathan Calede
jonathan.calede@gmail.com

Jonathan received his bachelors (B.S.) in Earth Sciences from the Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France. He then moved to the United States where he earned a M.S. in earth sciences from the University of Oregon and a PhD in biology from the University of Washington. After a year at Bucknell University as a Visiting Assistant Professor, he spent 2017-2023 as an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University. After being granted tenure, Jonathan returned to his home country of France. He lives on a 30 acre farm where he continues his research on the systematics and paleoecology of mammals from the Oligocene and Miocene. He is mostly focused on understanding the evolutionary ecology of geomyoids, but you will also find him puzzling at other critters.

Omar Isswai is demonstrator at Department of Geology, Faculty of science, Mansoura University. He is currently a MSc student in Stratigraphy and paleontology at Mansoura University. He graduated from Mansoura University with B.Sc (2021).

Brendan M. Anderson
Visiting Assistant Professor at Union College (NY) and a Research Associate at the Paleontological Research Institution.
(He/Him/His)
BMA53@Cornell.edu

Brendan M. Anderson received a bachelors (BA Honors) from Dartmouth College in Biological Sciences and Religion, a masters degree (MS) in Geology from the University of Kansas, and a doctorate (PhD) in Geosciences from Cornell University concentrating in Paleobiology. He subsequently held postdoctoral positions at West Virginia University, Baylor University, and the Paleontological Research Institution.
Brendan’s primary research interest molluscan, especially gastropod, macroevolutionary responses to environmental change. He employs a variety of techniques to address these questions including molecular and morphological phylogenetic paleobiology, community paleoecology, stable isotope sclerochronology, SEM and nano-CT imaging, and 3-D printing. Brendan is also interested in research on geoscience education and outreach and evidence-based tools and practices for broadening participation in paleontology, and science generally.
More information and a list of publications can be found at: https://www.brendan-anderson.com/

Andrew Traynor
andrew929@gmail.com

 

Andrew is a paleontologist focused on enhancing our understanding of early amniote phylogeny and gaining insight into the evolving ecosystems of the Carboniferous and Permian. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences, with a concentration in ecology and evolution, from the University of Chicago. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at Carleton University.

Jasper Ponstein. AG Paläobiologie und Evolution, Institut für Biologie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Germany and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany and Oertijdmuseum, Bosscheweg 80, 5283 WB Boxtel, Netherlands. ponstein.jasper@gmail.com

Jasper Ponstein is a PhD candidate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and a visiting researcher at the Oertijdmuseum since 2021. His main research focus is the evolution of herbivory in Paleozoic tetrapods, while maintaining a broad interest in fossil tetrapods as a whole.