Professor Paul Michael Barrett is a British vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. His work primarily focuses on dinosaurs. The extinct dinosaur Vectipelta barretti is named in his honour. [1] [2] [3]
After undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, Paul Barrett became Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge from 1996-1999, then Departmental Lecturer in Animal Diversity at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford from 1999-2003. He joined the Natural History Museum, London in 2012, becoming a Merit Researcher in 2012 [4]
He has more than 400 publications mentioned on Google Scholar [5] .
Barrett was presented with the President's medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2016 [6] and the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 2011.