Richard J. Butler


Richard J. Butler is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Birmingham, where he holds the title of professor of palaeobiology. His research focuses on ornithischian dinosaur evolution, dinosaur origins, and fossil tetrapod macroevolution.

Biography

Butler's undergraduate degree is a BSc in geology from the University of Bristol. His Ph.D., in 2007, is from the University of Cambridge.
He then worked at the London Natural History Museum as, first a postdoctoral research assistant, and then a NERC researcher co-investigator. From 2009 through 2011, he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the GeoBio-Center, in Munich, Germany, followed for 2011–2013 as junior research group leader there.
He then came to the University of Birmingham, first as a Birmingham Fellow, then a Senior Birmingham Fellow and Academic Keeper of its Lapworth Museum of Geology. In 2017 he was appointed to a personal chair at Birmingham as professor of paleobiology.

Professional work

According to his web page at Birmingham, his interests are:
His most cited papers, according to Google Scholar are: