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Welcome!

Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Geology
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA


Other Professional Appointments

Honorary Research Fellow, The Natural History Museum, London
Visiting Professor, Capital Normal University, Beijing, P. R. China

Emeritus Reader in Palaeontology, School of Earth, Atmospheric, and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester

Fellow of the Linnean Society of London
Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fellow of the​ Willi Hennig Society

President, International Society of Arachnology, 2001–2004
President, British Arachnological Society, 1997–2000
President, Manchester Geological Association, 1991–1993
Vice President, The Palaeontological Association, 1991–1993
Vice President, The Palaeontographical Society, 1995–1998
Overseas Representative, The Palaeontological Association, 2007–2020

Editor, Arachnology (formerly Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society)
Editor, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, 2007–2020
Editor, Paleontological Contributions, 2007–2020
Editor, Treatise Online, 2007–2020
Editor, Palaeontology 1986–1991
Editor, Special Papers in Palaeontology 1986–1991
Section Editor, Arthropod Structure and Development
Associate Editor, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Associate Editor, Paleontology, Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018–2020
Associate Editor, Paleontology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018–2020
​Associate Editor, PALAIOS
Associate Editor, Ecologica Montenegrina
Editorial Board, Palaeoentomology
Associate Editor, Journal of Arachnology, 2000–2013
Associate Editor, Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2016–2019
Advisory Scientific Board, Alavesia
Guest Editor, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2017
Advisory Committee of the 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Mendoza, Argentina, 2014
Scientific Committee of the 1st International Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2018
Scientific Committee of the 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress, 2018
Scientific Committee of the 4th Palaeontological Virtual Congress, 2023
Scientific Committee of the 8th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber, 2019

Distinctions

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation Research Award, 2011
Honorary Member, British Arachnological Society

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Eponyms
Saccogulus seldeni Dunlop, Fayers, Hass & Kerp, 2006 (Devonian arthropod)
Seldischnoplura seldeni Raven, Jell & Knezour, 2015 (Cretaceous spider)
Stenoonops seldeni (Penney, 2000) (Oligocene spider)
Pedipalparaneus seldeni Wunderlich, 2015 (Cretaceous spider)

Previous Posts

2007–2020 Director, Paleontological Institute, University of Kansas
2007–2020 Courtesy Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
2007–2020 Associate Curator, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas
2005–2007 Scientific Associate, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London
2003–2005 Reader in Palaeontology, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester
1991–2003 Senior Lecturer in Palaeontology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Manchester 
1981–1991 Staff Tutor/Senior Staff Tutor in Earth Sciences, Department of Extra-Mural Studies and Honorary Lecturer in Geology, University of Manchester
1979–1981 Demonstrator, Department of Geology, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London

Education

1975–1979 University of Cambridge, Darwin College, PhD (Functional Morphology of Baltoeurypterus)
1972–1975 University of Manchester, BSc (Hons) Geology and Zoology
1965–1972 Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham, Bucks
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Other links

Jörg Wunderlich’s Arachnology Site
Catalogue of Organisms – an inordinate fondness for systematics
Wilmslow Guild – Adult Education Centre
Play with Spider – open with care!
Dȩbieńsko Wielkie – the Smakowski home town
Chalfont St Giles – where I was born
Chesham – where we grew up
Marlow, Bucks
Marlow, Mecklenburg
Eurypterid 3D movies – amazing movies of eurypterids by Gérard Ciavatti
Daddy Long-Legs in Seattle – arachnological urban art
42 Evolution – Evolution resource

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