Congratulations to St Hugh’s Tutor in Palaeobiology, Professor Erin Saupe, who has been presented with the 2024 Schuchert Award by the Paleontological Society. The award is presented annually to a member early in their career whose work reflects excellence and quality. The Paleontological Society is an international organisation founded in 1908 and is devoted to the advancement of palaeontology. Members of the Society comprise a community spanning 40 countries across the globe.
Professor Saupe works at the heart of palaeobiology research in the Department of Earth Sciences. Her research centres around investigations of the interactions between life and environments over geological timescales, addressing fundamental questions on the origin, maintenance and conservation of biological diversity. Erin leads the Saupe Lab, an exciting community of researchers who utilise a broad tool-kit of investigative methods to delve into the field’s most exciting questions.
Professor Saupe said, ‘I am incredibly grateful to the Paleontological Society for this honour. I am humbled, as it feels like only yesterday that I remember watching this very awards ceremony as a bright-eyed undergraduate student’.
