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Professor Paul Barrett is a world-leading expert on the evolution and biology of dinosaurs and other extinct reptiles and has published more than 100 scientific papers and books. He joined the  in 2003 and is a Merit Researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences and Head of Division for Fossil Vertebrates, Anthropology and Micropalaeontology. Prior to this he held academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

His main areas of interest are in , describing new dinosaurs, and in large-scale evolutionary processes, such as the coevolution of animals and plants through time.

During the course of this work, he has travelled extensively to work on museum collections around the world and conducted fieldwork in China, the UK and South Africa. He is currently President of the , holds numerous editorial positions and sits on the councils and committees of several learned societies.

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Franz Nopsca (1877-1933) was a Hungarian-born aristocrat who examined bones found by his sister on their family's estate.

The young Nopsca established that the bones were those of a dinosaur but realised that they were unusually small. The conclusion he reached as to why had a profound impact on our understanding of how habitat impacted dinosaurs.