Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill

Dr Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill is a Lecturer at the School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, with a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. She holds a PhD in Palaeobiology from the University of Cambridge (2011), an MSc in Palaeobiology (University of Bristol, 2007), and a BSc in Zoology (University of Bristol, 2005). Her research focuses on:

• Biological machine learning: Applying computational methods to life sciences
• Computational palaeobiology: Quantifying evolutionary history
• Evolutionary convergence: Measuring repeated evolutionary patterns
• Ediacaran palaeoecology: Studying Earth's earliest macro-organisms

Her current projects include machine learning on butterfly phenotypes and computational analysis of the fossil record. She has received the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship and presented at conferences including the Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting and Open University Geological Society AGM. She supervises PhD student Benjamin James Calvert and collaborates with institutions like the Earth Life Science Institute at Tokyo Institute of Technology.