{{Short description|English palaeontologist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Susannah Maidment | image = Susannah Maidment.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Maidment in 2018 | other_names = Susie Maidment | workplaces = Natural History Museum, London<br />University of Birmingham | alma_mater = Imperial College London <br /> University of Cambridge }} '''Susannah "Susie" Catherine Rose Maidment''' is a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/susannah-maidment.html|title=Dr Susannah Maidment {{!}} Natural History Museum|website=www.nhm.ac.uk|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> She is also an honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham. She is internationally recognised for her research on ornithischian dinosaur evolution, and was awarded the 2016 Hodson Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.palass.org/awards-grants/awards/medal-and-award-winners-list|title=Medal and Award Winners List {{!}} The Palaeontological Association|website=www.palass.org|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> of the Palaeontological Association and the 2017 Lyell Fund of the Geological Society of London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/geography/2017/05/10/dinosaur-experts-double-award/|title=Dinosaur expert's double award|date=10 May 2017}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> She was featured as a 2019 National Geographic Women of Impact.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/womenofimpact|title=Women of Impact|last=@NatGeoUK|date=2019-10-28|website=National Geographic|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-12-02}}</ref>
== Education and career == Maidment studied geology at Imperial College London, graduating with an MSc in 2003. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2007, in which she studied the systematics of the dinosaur group Stegosauria.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|title=Hodson Award: Dr Susannah C. R. Maidment|url=https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/publications/newsletters/number_94/newsletter_94.pdf|journal=The Palaeontology Newsletter|volume=94|page=12}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Norman|first2=D.B.|last3=Barrett|first3=P.M.|last4=Upchurch|first4=P|date=2008|title=Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology|volume=6|issue=4|pages=367–407|doi=10.1017/S1477201908002459|s2cid=85673680}}</ref> Her research was supervised by David Norman and Paul Upchurch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/david-norman|title=Dr David Norman — Department of Earth Sciences|website=www.esc.cam.ac.uk|date=28 January 2015|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> Following time working as an exploration geologist in Vietnam,<ref name=":0" /> she moved in 2009 to work with Paul Barrett at the Natural History Museum, London, as a postdoctoral researcher co-investigator on a NERC-funded project<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gotw.nerc.ac.uk/list_full.asp?pcode=NE/G001898/1|title=GOTW - Grants on the Web|website=gotw.nerc.ac.uk|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> on ornithischian dinosaur locomotion.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Bates|first2=K.T.|last3=Falkingham|first3=P.L.|last4=VanBuren|first4=C.|last5=Arbour|first5=V.|last6=Barrett|first6=P.M.|date=2013|title=Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling|journal=Biological Reviews|volume=89|issue=3|pages=588–617|doi=10.1111/brv.12071|pmid=24251809|s2cid=2499006|issn=1464-7931|url=http://researchonline.rvc.ac.uk/id/eprint/8665/ |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Barrett|first2=P.M.|date=2012|title=Does morphological convergence imply functional similarity? A test using the evolution of quadrupedalism in ornithischian dinosaurs|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences|volume=279|issue=1743|pages=3765–3771|doi=10.1098/rspb.2012.1040|issn=0962-8452|pmc=3415913|pmid=22719033}}</ref>
In 2012 she returned to Imperial College London as a Research Fellow, before moving in 2016 to the University of Brighton as a Senior Lecturer.<ref name=":0" /> In 2018 she re-joined the Natural History Museum, where she works as a senior researcher.<ref name=":0" /> She is an honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/earth-sciences/palaeobiology/vertebrate-palaeontology.aspx|title=Vertebrate Palaeontology - Palaeobiology theme - Geosystems research - University of Birmingham|website=www.birmingham.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref>
== Research == Maidment has published more than 50 scientific papers, primarily focused on the systematics, evolution and palaeobiology of ornithischian dinosaurs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JcWAigMAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Susannah Maidment - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.co.uk|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> She has worked extensively on stegosaurs, and is considered the world leader on this group.<ref name=":1" /> Her contributions have included overall revisions of the systematics of the group,<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Raven|first1=T.J.|last2=Maidment|first2=S.C.R.|date=2017|title=A new phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria, Ornithischia)|journal=Palaeontology|volume=60|issue=3|pages=401–408|doi=10.1111/pala.12291|hdl=10044/1/45349|s2cid=55613546 |url=https://cris.brighton.ac.uk/ws/files/447710/Raven&Maidment_AcceptedPreprint.pdf|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Maidment|first=S.C.R.|date=2010|title=Stegosauria: a historical review of the body fossil record and phylogenetic relationships|journal=Swiss Journal of Geosciences|volume=103|issue=2|pages=199–210|doi=10.1007/s00015-010-0023-3|s2cid=84415016}}</ref> the description of the Portuguese stegosaur ''Miragaia'',<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Mateus|first1=O.|last2=Maidment|first2=S.C.R.|last3=Christiansen|first3=N.A.|date=2009|title=A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic'stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B|volume=276|issue=1663|pages=1815–1821|doi=10.1098/rspb.2008.1909|pmid=19324778|pmc=2674496}}</ref> the description of the oldest known stegosaur, ''Adratiklit'', from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S. C. R.|last2=Raven|first2=T. J.|last3=Ouarhache|first3=D.|last4=Barrett|first4=P. M.|date=2019|title=North Africa's first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity|journal=Gondwana Research|volume=77|pages=82–97|doi=10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.007|issn=1342-937X|doi-access=free|hdl=10141/622706|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/august/the-oldest-stegosaur-ever-has-been-discovered-in-morocco.html|title=The oldest stegosaur ever has been discovered in Morocco|website=www.nhm.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-08-20}}</ref> the oldest known ankylosaurian ''Spicomellus'', also from Morocco,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=Susannah C. R.|last2=Strachan|first2=Sarah J.|last3=Ouarhache|first3=Driss|last4=Scheyer|first4=Torsten M.|last5=Brown|first5=Emily E.|last6=Fernandez|first6=Vincent|last7=Johanson|first7=Zerina|last8=Raven|first8=Thomas J.|last9=Barrett|first9=Paul M.|date=2021-09-23|title=Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01553-6|journal=Nature Ecology & Evolution|volume=5 |issue=12 |language=en|pages=1576–1581|doi=10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6|pmid=34556830 |s2cid=237616095 |issn=2397-334X|url-access=subscription}}</ref> anatomical and systematic revisions of Chinese stegosaurs,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Wei|first2=G.|date=2006|title=A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China|journal=Geological Magazine|volume=143|issue=5|pages=621–634|doi=10.1017/S0016756806002500|bibcode=2006GeoM..143..621M|s2cid=83661067}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Wei|first2=G.|last3=Norman|first3=D.B.|date=2006|title=Re-description of the postcranial skeleton of the middle Jurassic stegosaur ''Huayangosaurus taibaii''|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=26|issue=4|pages=944–956|doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[944:ROTPSO]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=85750667 }}</ref> and work on the postcranial skeleton and body mass of ''Stegosaurus''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Brassey|first2=C.|last3=Barrett|first3=P.M.|date=2015|title=The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur ''Stegosaurus stenops'' (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=10|issue=10|article-number=e0138352|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0138352|pmid=26466098|pmc=4605687|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1038352M|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Brassey|first1=C|last2=Maidment|first2=S.C.R.|last3=Barrett|first3=P.M.|date=2015|title=Body mass estimates of an exceptionally complete Stegosaurus (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): comparing volumetric and linear bivariate mass estimation methods|journal=Biology Letters|volume=11|issue=3|article-number=20140984|pmid=25740841|pmc=4387493|doi=10.1098/rsbl.2014.0984}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/164246/scientists-reveal-body-weight-worlds-most/|title=Scientists reveal the body weight of the world's most complete Stegosaurus {{!}} Imperial News {{!}} Imperial College London|work=Imperial News|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> She has also published several papers on locomotion and the evolution of quadrupedality in ornithischian dinosaurs.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|last2=Linton|first2=D.H.|last3=Upchurch|first3=P.|last4=Barrett|first4=P.M.|date=2012|title=Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=7|issue=5|article-number=e36904|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0036904|issn=1932-6203|pmc=3358279|pmid=22666333|bibcode=2012PLoSO...736904M|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In 2015, she was part of a team who reported evidence of original collagen fibres and blood cells in Cretaceous dinosaur specimens.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bertazzo|first1=S.|last2=Maidment|first2=S.C.R.|last3=Kallepitis|first3=C.|last4=Fearn|first4=S.|last5=Stevens|first5=M.M.|last6=Xie|first6=H.-N.|date=2015|title=Fibres and cellular structures preserved in 75-million–year-old dinosaur specimens|journal=Nature Communications|volume=6|page=7352|pmid=26056764|pmc=4468865|doi=10.1038/ncomms8352|bibcode=2015NatCo...6.7352B}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33067582|title='Blood cells' found in dino fossils|last=Rincon|first=Paul|date=2015-06-09|work=BBC News|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/09/75-million-year-old-dinosaur-blood-and-collagen-discovered-in-fossil-fragments|title=75-million-year-old dinosaur blood and collagen discovered in fossil fragments|last=Sample|first=Ian|date=2015-06-09|journal=The Guardian|access-date=2018-10-09}}</ref> Her most recent research has focused on the stratigraphy of the Morrison Formation of the Western United States.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation|last1=Maidment|first1=S.C.R.|title=Magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, and Prospects for Using Magnetostratigraphy as a Correlative Tool in the Morrison Formation|date=2017|work=Terrestrial Depositional Systems|pages=279–302|publisher=Elsevier|doi=10.1016/b978-0-12-803243-5.00007-8|isbn=978-0-12-803243-5|last2=Balikova|first2=D.|last3=Muxworthy|first3=A.R.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2019-08-15|title=To date a dinosaur|url=https://www.knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2019/date-dinosaur-stegosaurus-susie-maidment|journal= Knowable Magazine|doi=10.1146/knowable-081419-1|last1=Poppick|first1=Laura|s2cid=202435890 |doi-access=free|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Maidment|first1=S. C. R.|last2=Muxworthy|first2=A.|date=2019|title=A chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western U.S.A.|journal=Journal of Sedimentary Research|language=en|volume=89|issue=10|pages=1017–1038|doi=10.2110/jsr.2019.54|issn=1527-1404|bibcode=2019JSedR..89.1017M|hdl=10141/622707|s2cid=210343715 |hdl-access=free}}</ref> She was one of the lead scientists for the "Mission Jurassic" dinosaur excavation project that began in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/origins-evolution-and-futures/dinosaur-research/mission-jurassic-excavation.html|title=Mission Jurassic excavation {{!}} Natural History Museum|website=www.nhm.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-05-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nxVbFidDbs/mission-jurassic|title=Mission Jurassic: Searching for dinosaur bones|website=BBC News|access-date=2019-08-15}}</ref>
In 2023, she was scientific advisor for the TV series ''Prehistoric Planet''.
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