Philip C.J. Donoghue

fields = Plainlist| Palaeobiology Developmental biology Bodyplan evolution Metazoa Vertebrates and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol.

Education Donoghue was educated at the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in geology in 1992 and PhD in Paleontology in 1997 for research supervised by Richard Aldridge and Mark Purnell. He also holds a Master of Science degree in palynology from the University of Sheffield. focuses on major transitions in evolutionary history, including the origin and early evolution of vertebrates, animals, and plants. and has played a leading role in establishing the role of palaeontology in establishing evolutionary timescales.

Awards and honours Donoghue was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015.

Donoghue has been on the Councils of the Palaeontological Association, Systematics Association, the Micropalaeontological Society and the European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology. His research has been recognised by the award of the Philip Leverhulme Prize of the Leverhulme Trust in 2004, the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society in 2007, and the President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association in 2014.