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Javier Ortega-Hernández
Summary
I am an invertebrate paleobiologist interested in the evolution of major animal groups during the Paleozoic, with particular emphasis on the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Originally from Mexico City, I obtained my undergraduate degree in Biology from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and in 2008 completed the MSc in Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. I then moved to the University of Cambridge from 2009 to 2018, first as a PhD student at the Department of Earth Sciences, and then as a Research Fellow of Emmanuel College and the Department of Zoology. I am currently an member of faculty at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Developmental Biology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Taxonomy Zoology