Hans-Dieter Sues (born 1956) is a German-born [1] American palaeontologist who is a Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. [2]
Hans-Dieter Sues (born 1956) is a German-born [1] American palaeontologist who is a Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. [2]
Sues attended the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (University of Mainz), the University of Alberta, and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1984). [3] He did work at McGill University and was a research paleobiologist at the Smithsonian before taking a role at the Royal Ontario Museum, where he was vice-president of collections and research. [4]
In 1998, Sues was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [5] In 2002, he moved to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, becoming their curator of vertebrate paleontology. [4] From 2002 to 2004, he was also the president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. [6] In 2003, Sues was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [7] [8] In 2010, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Excellence in Research and Teaching. [9]
Sues has published on a wide range of extinct Mesozoic and Paleozoic tetrapods, including temnospondyls, [10] [11] early reptiles, [12] [13] synapsids, [14] [15] turtles, [16] [17] dinosaurs, [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] other archosauromorphs, [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] and lepidosauromorphs. [28] [29] He has also contributed to studies on the evolution of herbivory [30] [31] and faunal transitions. [32] [33] He primarily studies taxa from North America and Europe. [34] [35] [36] [37] The pachycephalosaur Hanssuesia is named for him. [38]
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