Victoria Herridge

Dr Victoria Herridge is a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and one of the founders of Trowelblazers, which celebrates women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists.

Career

Victoria graduated with a First Class degree in biology from University College London in 2002. After a Masters at Imperial College London, she returned to University College London to gain her PhD on 'Dwarf Elephants on Mediterranean Islands: A Natural Experiment in Parallel Evolution'. Her research focuses on the evolution of island mammals during the Pleistocene period and their responses to extreme climate change, in particular dwarf elephants.[1][2] She is a founding editor-in-chief at the open access journal Open quaternary.[3]

Science communication

She delivered the 2012 Charles Lyell Award lecture at the British Science Festival [4] and co-wrote Who Do You Think You Really Are for the Natural History Museum. The film was a Premier Award Winner in 2011.

Her book, The World’s Smallest Mammoth, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2015.

References

  1. ↑ Herridge, Victoria; Lister, A.M. "Extreme insular dwarfism evolved in a mammoth". Proceedings of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0671.
  2. ↑ "Dwarfism". The Geological Society. 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
  3. ↑ http://www.openquaternary.com/about/editorialteam/
  4. ↑ "British Science Festival 2012 – Focus on Geoscience". Geoscience Lines. 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2014-06-23.