Paul M. Barrett

Paul Michael Barrett is a British vertebrate paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. His work primarily focuses on dinosaurs. The extinct dinosaur Vectipelta barretti is named in his honour.

Biography After undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge, Paul Barrett became Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge from 1996-1999, then Departmental Lecturer in Animal Diversity at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford from 1999-2003. He joined the Natural History Museum, London in 2012, becoming a Merit Researcher in 2012

He has more than 400 publications mentioned on Google Scholar.

Awards Barrett was presented with the President's medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2016 and the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society in 2011.