Palaeontology. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
Emma is an Assistant Professor in paleobiology at Friedrich Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen, Germany. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, she began her career as a zoologist studying living animals, before moving to the UK, and later Germany, to focus her research on fossilised critters. Her current research investigates how various environmental, physical, and historical factors drive patterns of deep-time biodiversity. She is particularly interested in how past climate change influenced the evolutionary patterns of extinct vertebrates (such as dinosaurs and pterosaurs), but she is especially passionate about ethical issues and the legacy of colonialism in paleontological research.