Dr. Alienor Duhamel writer on paleontology on thedinosaurs.orgDr. Alienor Duhamel

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. I work on a group called Therapsida, that are considered to be the stem-group of mammals and lived mainly during the Permian and Triassic Periods. I specialised on microCT-scan data and 3D reconstruction of therapsid cranial material (Virtual Paleontology). My models enables me to study the endocranial anatomy of those animals, and to infer their phylogenetic relationships. I produce my phylogenies using both parsimony (TNT) and Bayesian methods (MrBayes mainly). I am born in France and started my studies in general sciences in Nantes, before moving to the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and to the University of Lyon 1 for a Bachelor in Geosciences and Master in Paleontology, between 2014 and 2017. In the meantime, I worked on a dinosaur excavation in Angeac-Charente from 2013 to 2015. In 2018 I moved to South Africa for my PhD on therapsid taxonomy and phylogeny. Since 2018 I have been going regularly on the field in the Karoo desert to find Permian and Triassic fossils. Aside from Paleontology, I love to wander around in nature and would go travel regularly, in Europe and Southern Africa. I’m a climber and a horse rider as well. You can find my paleo-instagram account here: @Ali0gator
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I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. I work on a group called Therapsida, that are considered to be the stem-group of mammals and lived mainly during the Permian and Triassic Periods. I specialised on microCT-scan data and 3D reconstruction of therapsid cranial material (Virtual Paleontology). My models enables me to study the endocranial anatomy of those animals, and to infer their phylogenetic relationships. I produce my phylogenies using both parsimony (TNT) and Bayesian methods (MrBayes mainly). I am born in France and started my studies in general sciences in Nantes, before moving to the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon and to the University of Lyon 1 for a Bachelor in Geosciences and Master in Paleontology, between 2014 and 2017. In the meantime, I worked on a dinosaur excavation in Angeac-Charente from 2013 to 2015. In 2018 I moved to South Africa for my PhD on therapsid taxonomy and phylogeny. Since 2018 I have been going regularly on the field in the Karoo desert to find Permian and Triassic fossils. Aside from Paleontology, I love to wander around in nature and would go travel regularly, in Europe and Southern Africa. I’m a climber and a horse rider as well. You can find my paleo-instagram account here: @Ali0gator