Elisabeth vrba biography samples

American paleontologist

Elisabeth S. Vrba (born May 17, ) is a paleontologist at Yale University who developed the turnover-pulse hypothesis.

Education

Vrba earned her Ph.D.

in Zoology and Palaeontology at the University of Cape Town, in Vrba studied zoology and mathematical statistics at the University of Cape Town to earn her undergraduate degree. She remained there for doctoral study in zoology and paleontology to earn her Ph.D.

After receiving her doctorate, Vrba conducted her early research on African fossil records over the last several million years, tracking the sequence of fossils from analyzing the geological strata and analyzing the morphology of the fossils.^[1] She was the chief assistant to Charles Kimberlin Brain during his directorship of the Transvaal Museum.^[2]

Career

She has been a faculty member at the Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University, since the early s.^{[3][unreliable source?}