Professor Liz Harper
- College positions:
College Lecturer
Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences)
- University positions:
Professor of Evolutionary Malacology
Honorary Curator of Palaeontology, Sedgwick Museum
- Subject:
Degrees
MA Natural Sciences (Geological Sciences) (University of Cambridge), PhD in Earth Sciences (Open University)
Awards and prizes
President’s Award Palaeontological Association (1990), Annual Award Malacological Society of London (1991), Royal Society University Research Fellow (1994-2004), Phyllis and Eileen Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowship (2008)
Research interests
Biomineralization, invertebrate biology and palaeontology, predator-prey interactions in modern and ancient communities, phylogenetic relationships. Co-editor of 'The Evolutionary Biology of the Bivalvia'.
Teaching interests
Part IA Geology, Part IB Geological Sciences A and Part II and III Palaeontology papers
Other interests
Wildlife