Educational record
BSc. in Geology and Geophysics 2004, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
MSc. in Geology and Zoology 2006, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
PhD. student 2006 - present at Yale University, USA
Publications
Vinther, J. and Nielsen, C. 2005 The Early Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc, Zoologica Scripta, 34(1), 81-89.
Kenrick, P and Vinther, J. 2006. Chaetocladus gracilis n. sp., a non-calcified Dasycladales from the Upper Silurian of Skåne, Sweden. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology; 142, 153-160.
Scientific presentations at conferences
The Palaeontological Association 2004: The Lower Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc (Poster).
Lundadagarna, Lund, Sweden (Nordic Palaeontological Symposium) 2005, The Lower Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc (Poster).
The Fourth Symposium on the Cambrian System, Nanjing, China 2005: The phylogenetic position of Halkieria- and other Palaezoic molluscs (Poster).
Palaeontological Association 2005: How the Chiton got its tegmentum (Talk).
Geological Society of America 2006: The esthetal canal system in polyplacophorans (Mollusca) and a comparison with the sclerite canal system in sachitids (Lower to Middle Cambrian) (Talk).
Palaeontological Association 2006: The evolution of the shell in aculiferan molluscs (Aplacophora and Polyplacophora) (Talk).
Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology 2007: The esthetal canal system in chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) and homologous structures in Lower Cambrian small shelly fossils (Talk).
Awards
Den Schibbyeske præmie 2006. From: The Danish Society of Natural History. For the paper: Vinther, J. and Nielsen, C. (2005) The early Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc.