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I’m Dr Tori Herridge, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Sheffield, where I also run the MSc in Science Communication (come study with me!). Before this, I did my post-doctoral work at the Natural History Museum in London, thanks to funding from NERC, the Leverhulme Trust, and –most recently– as a Daphne Jackson Research Fellow.

My research addresses big evolutionary and environmental questions using a broad range of lab and field methods, all underpinned by the rich fossil record from the Quaternary Period (aka “The Ice Age”).

I am an expert on fossil elephants, particularly those species which lived in Europe during the Ice Age: mammoths and straight-tusked elephants.

I’m the co-founder of TrowelBlazers, an organisation dedicated to telling the stories of pioneering women in palaeontology, geology and archaeology, and addressing gender disparity in these fields today.

See trowelblazers.com, or join TeamTB (me, Su