Class of 2023

• Felix Bowers
• Sidney Davies
• Hady George
• Zhiqing Guo
• Zhiyi Li
• Qiling Liu

Class of 2022

• Isaura Aguilar-Pedrayes: Feeding efficiency in ornithischian evolution (Self)
• Gengyu Fang: Mechanisms of hyperossification in fishes (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Thomas Farrell: A can of worms—tracing the origins of Ecdysozoa using fossils, molecules and morphology in a Bayesian framework (NERC GW4+)
• Kirsten Flett: Fossil insights into the developmental evolution of animal bodyplans (University of Bristol Scholarship)
• YanDa Li: Evolution of morphological disparity in beetles (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Xinyuan Meng: Evolutionary assembly of the gnathostome bodyplan (Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Nikita Jane Rothwell: (UoB Scholarship)
• Benton Walters: Evolutionary morphology of animals wings (University of Bristol Scholarship)

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)

Class of 2020

• Madleen Grohganz: The evolutionary origin of teeth (NERC GW4+)
• Ruolin Wu: Origin and early evolution of eukaryotes (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

Class of 2018

• Vicky Coules: Imaging dinosaurs through the years (Self). Vicky is a writer and film producer, part of the Hooded Crow company.
• Chris McCabe: Evolution of mammalian venom: a molecular, ecological and morphofunctional approach (SWBio DTP)
• Marta Zaher: Macroevolution and function in parareptiles (Faculty of Science)