Derek E.G. Briggs Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Curator in Charge of Invertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Career 2008- Director of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. 2004-2007 Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies. 2003- Professor of Geology and Geophysics and Curator in charge of Invertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. 2001-2002 Visiting Professor, Dept. Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago. 1985-2002 Department of Earth Sciences (formerly Geology), University of Bristol (Chair 1997-2001). 1977-1985 Department of Geology, Goldsmiths' College, University of London. 1974-1977 Research Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. BA Trinity College, Dublin; MA, PhD University of Cambridge. Distinctions 1999 Fellow of the Royal Society (the UK national academy of science). 2000 Premio Capo d'Orlando (Italian prize for paleontology). 2000 Lyell Medal, Geological Society of London. 2001 Boyle Medal, Royal Dublin Society/Irish Times. 2003 Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. 2002-2004 President, Palaeontological Association. 2006-2008 President, Paleontological Society. 2008 Humboldt Research Award 2009 Bownocker Medal, School of Earth Sciences, Ohio State University Corresponding Member (i.e. honorary foreign member) of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Germany