Duncan Murdock

Duncan is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History’s mineralogy and petrology collections, 'early life' palaeontology (including the Brasier collection), and trace fossils. This includes: storage, conservation and rationalisation of collections, documentation, digitisation and imaging and developing the collections through new acquisitions. He also answers enquiries and facilitates research visits and loans, as well as developing new exhibitions and displays.

Duncan also carries out public engagement and collections-based research His research interests are focused on: using the fossil record to understand the early evolution of animals, in particular their skeletons; how decay and preservation bias our understanding of exceptionally preserved fossils; and, the anatomy and evolution of the first vertebrates.