Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki

I am the lead scientist for the research on early dinosaurs and the evolution of the Mesozoic ecosystems at the Department of Organismal Biology at Uppsala University. My past and recent research addresses major evolutionary events and palaeoecology, particularly as exemplified by extinct vertebrates. I am especially interested in the origin and early radiation of tetrapods in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic and end-Triassic mass extinctions, the large extinction events in the history of life. Throughout my career I have published over 250 peer-review publications, conference abstracts and popular science texts, as well as two popular science books. My most important work includes the origin of early tetrapods (Nature), the origin and early evolution of dinosaurs (Nature, Proceedings of the Royal Society B), the evolution of the Late Triassic therapsids (Science, PNAS).