Susannah Maidment

Susannah Maidment is an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering at Imperial College London, part of the Faculty of Engineering. She holds affiliations with the Basins Research Group, Geodynamics, and the Natural Magnetism Group. Her research focuses on paleobiological problems, including dinosaur biodiversity patterns, stegosaurian dinosaur taxonomy, and the preservation of soft tissues in fossils.

Education: PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Cambridge (2003–2007), MSci from Imperial College London (1999–2003).

Professional Experience: Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College (2012–2017); Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Natural History Museum (2009–2012); Exploration Geologist at Talisman Energy, Vietnam (2008–2009).

Research Interests: She examines the latitudinal biodiversity gradient in the Morrison Formation, studies stegosaur anatomy and systematics (e.g., Stegosaurus), and investigates soft-tissue preservation in dinosaur fossils, including a groundbreaking discovery of red blood cells and collagen in 75-million-year-old fossils (2015).

Labs/Teams: Active in the Natural History Museum’s Palaeontology department and collaborates on global projects analyzing stegosaurs from Europe, China, and the USA.

Grants: Co-Investigator on a NERC Standard Grant (2009–2012) at the Natural History Museum.