Roles

Responsibilities

Open Palaeontology President, co-founder, Managing Editor, Steering Committee

| 2024 – present

I am current President, a co-founder, Steering Committee member, and Managing Editor of Open Palaeontology, a new diamond open access journal. We present a transformative publishing model to increase transparency and accountability in academic research, support ECRs, and provide a venue to publish less visible research aspects like new analysis packages and negative results.

The Palaeontological Association Newsletter Editor, charity trustee

| 2023 – present

Member of Council Diversity Group, grant-awarding committees, and Annual Meeting presentation prize committees.

Commission for the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology KSJP, Swiss Academy of Sciences, Council Member, Associate Editor

| 2022 – present

Réseau Romand mentee

| 2023 – 2024

Successful applicant for francophone Switzerland women’s professorial mentoring scheme.

Teaching and supervision

• Co-supervisor for Sinéad Lynch, PhD thesis ‘Euarthropod moulting in the fossil record’, University of Lausanne, 2021 – 2026

• Co-supervisor for several Bachelors’ students, University of Lausanne, 2021 – 2023

• Laboratory and field teaching assistant for various undergraduate courses, University of Lausanne, 2022 – 2024

• Designed and delivered postgraduate training course ‘Publishing and editorial skills for researchers’, University of Lausanne, 2022

• Laboratory teacher, vertebrate and invertebrate dissection, University of Oxford, 2015 – 2019

• Small-group tutorial lecturer, arthropod palaeobiology and mass extinctions, University of Oxford, 2017

Peer reviewer

Active reviewer for many international journals, see my Web of Science profile.

Conference organisation

• Swiss Geoscience Meeting annual palaeontology symposium organiser, 2022 – present, Switzerland

• International Palaeontological Congress symposium organiser, 2026, South Africa

• Trilobite Biogeography and Ecology workshop PI and organiser, 2023, Germany

• Society for Molecular Biology and Ecology symposium organiser, 2023, Italy

• Progressive Palaeontology conference lead organiser, 2016, UK