Dr James Neenan

James Neenan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, co-funded by the John Fell Fund. Prior to this, James was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, where he studied inner ear evolution and growth in dinosaurs.

James obtained a BSc (Hons) in Palaeobiology from University College London, followed by an MSc in Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol. He conducted his doctoral work at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, where he studied the anatomy, evolution and palaeoecology of placodont marine reptiles. This was followed by a Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.