Welcome!Gulf-Hedberg Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Geology University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA         Other Professional AppointmentsHonorary 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 Board, Continent and Life Evolution 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 DistinctionsAlexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation Research Award, 2011
Honorary Member, British Arachnological Society, 2020 Eponyms Araripenymphes seldeni Menon, Martins-Neto & Martill, 2005 (Cretaceous insect) Cymbiapophysa seldeni Sherwood & Gabriel, 2023 (Ecuador theraphosid) Pedipalparaneus seldeni Wunderlich, 2015 (Cretaceous spider) Saccogulus seldeni Dunlop, Fayers, Hass & Kerp, 2006 (Devonian arthropod) Seldischnoplura seldeni Raven, Jell & Knezour, 2015 (Cretaceous spider) Stenoonops seldeni (Penney, 2000) (Oligocene spider) Previous Posts2007–2020 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 Education1975–1979 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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Spoonbill, Camargue
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