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Team
We are a global research group
Our team members are based at the Paleontology Institute and Museum in the University of Zurich (Switzerland), at the Biosciences Department in Swansea University (United Kingdom) and at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama).
Dr Catalina Pimiento
Group leader
Zurich and Swansea
Sharks' extinctions, evolution, ecology and conservation
Colombia
@pimientoc
Current members
Jack Cooper
PhD student
Swansea
Fossil sharks, especially Megalodon
GIANTS & SHARKS-FD
UK
@CooperPalaeo
Gregor Mathes
Postdoc
Zurich
Climate
SHARKS-XT
Germany
@GregorMathes
External members
Amy Shipley
PhD student
Leeds (PI: A. Dunhill)
Sharks
Trophic consequences of the extinction of apex predators
UK
Past members
Jaime Villafaña
Project coordinator
Zurich
Fossil sharks, paleobiology, paleobiogeography
SHARKS-XT
Chile
@VillafanaJA
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Interns and volunteers
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