Staff and Contacts
Many researchers, curators and collection assistants work at the Department of Palaeobiology.
The staff are situated in the Palaeobiology building, behind the main museum building.
Adresses
Mailing Address
Enheten för Paleobiologi
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
P.O. Box 50007
SE-104 05 Stockholm
Visiting Address
Svante Arrhenius väg 9
SE-114 18 Stockholm
Contacts
Head of Department
Deputy Head of Department
Secretary
Paleobotanical Collections
Paleozoological Collections
Staff
Permanent staff
Thomas Denk, Senior Curator.
Research: Evolution of woody flowering plants.
Therese Flink, Curator.
Jonas Hagström, Curator.
Curation of the collections, loans, documentation.
Ove Johansson, Curator.
Collections. Collections database.
Steffen Kiel, Senior Curator
Research: Invertebrate palaeobiology
Pollyanna von Knorring, Scientific Illustrator.
Scientific illustrations.
Cecilia Larsson, Curator.
Collections.
Anna Lindström, Senior Assistant.
Collections, research assistance.
Steve McLoughlin, Professor, Senior Curator.
Research: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic floras.
Thomas Mörs, Senior Curator.
Research: Fossil vertebrates.
Ewa Sjödin
, Junior Admin. Officer.
Economy and administration.
Vivi Vajda, Professor.
Research: Mass extinctions events and climate change, microfossils.
Lars Werdelin, Professor, Senior Curator
Research: Fossil vertebrates.
Postdocs, guest researchers and temporary staff
Benjamin Adroit, Postdoctoral Researcher
Christina Franzén, Associated Researcher
Research: Fossil echinoderms.
Stefan Hagenfeldt, Associated Researcher
Karin Helmens, Associated Researcher
Magnus Ivarsson, Researcher.
Research: The deep biosphere.
Ashley Kruger, Research Engineer
Gaëlle Van Laere, Senior Assistant
Liping Liu, Associated Researcher
Harry Mutvei, Associated Researcher
Research: Fossil and Recent hard tissues.
Susan Nehzati, Postdoctoral Researcher
Anja Nordgren, Senior Assistant
Kristoffer Palmgren, Associated Researcher
Isabelle van Rijssen, Senior Assistant
Therese Sallstedt, Postdoctoral Researcher.
Research: Proterozoic microbial communities.
Olena Shevchuk, Associated Researcher
Sam Slater, Researcher.
Margret Steinthorsdottir, Associated Researcher.
Petter Sverke, Senior Assistant
Tim Topper, Researcher
Ph.D. students
Qun Sui, Ph.D. Student
Yuanyuan Xu, Ph.D. Student
Emeriti
Stefan Bengtson, Professor, emeritus.
Research: Early animal evolution.
Else Marie Friis, Professor, emerita.
Research: Flowering plants