Class of 2021

• Ruby Barrett: The role of marine plankton in the Earth’s chemistry (NERC GW4+)
• Damiano Landi: On the re-emergence of beaks (Self)
• Yuming Liu: Origin of flight in insects (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Minbo Qi: Deriving an accurate and precise timescale for the origin and evolution of vertebrate diversity (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• James Rawson: Development, function and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint and middle ear (BBSRC SWBio DTP)
• Ruolin Wu: Origin and early evolution of eukaryotes (Chinese Scholarship Council)

Class of 2020

• Madleen Grohganz: The evolutionary origin of teeth (NERC GW4+)
• Ruolin Wu: Early eukaryote evolution (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Rui Ying: Changes in planktic ecosystems through earth history – new insights using trait models (Chinese Scholarship Council)

Class of 2019

• Emily Carlisle: Palaeobiology of the Kuanchuanpu Lagerstätte (University of Bristol)
• Sophie Chambi-Trowell: Feeding and niche paritioning in Triassic-Jurassic sphenodontians (Tratman Fund)
• Will Deakin: The influence of mechanical loads on skeletal form (NERC GW4+)
• Joseph Flannery-Sutherland: The Carnian Pluvial episode (NERC GW4+)
• Yizhou Huang: Biomarkers in the Early Triassic rocks of South China (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Zichuan Qin: Phylogeny and function of alvarezsaurian theropods (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Eleonora Rossi: The evolution of early metazoans and animal multicellularity, using the integration of multiple types of data
• Andre Rowe: Macroevoluton and function in giant theropod dinosaurs (Self)

Class of 2018

• Antonio Ballel Mayoral: Anatomy and function of the basal sauropodomorph dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus (NERC GW4+)
• Ana de Almeida Serra Jorge da Silva: Building large phylogenies: the amphibian tree of life (joint with Natural History Museum, London)
• Mattia Giacomelli: Ecdysozoa as a model system to test animal evolution
• Ben Griffin: Pterosaur flight biomechanics: how did the largest airborne animals get off the ground (self)
• George Hoppitt: Marine Protected area – are they only paper parks (NERC ESRC)
• Chris McCabe: Evolution of mammalian venom: a molecular, ecological and morphofunctional approach (SWBio DTP)
• Tom Smith: Patterns, processes, rates, and constraints in the evolution of morphological disparity

Class of 2017

• Vicky Coules: Imaging dinosaurs through the years (Self). Vicky is a writer and film producer, part of the Hooded Crow company.
• Ed Moody: The evolution of protein structural complexity before the last universal common ancestor (Royal Society URF)
• Morten Nielsen: Palaeoecology of the Sirius Passet lagerstätte, an early Cambrian exceptional fossil fauna
• Marta Zaher: Macroevolution and function in parareptiles (Faculty of Science)