Hans-Dieter Sues

Hans-Dieter Sues is a German-born paleontologist who is currently the Associate Director for Research and Collections at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He received his education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, University of Alberta, and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1984). Before assuming his present position, Sues worked at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto and at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. He is interested in the diversity, paleoecology, and evolutionary history of Mesozoic tetrapods, especially archosaurian reptiles and cynodont therapsids. Sues has discovered a number of new dinosaurs and other extinct terrestrial vertebrates around the world. He is editor or co-editor of several books and has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and book chapters on vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology. Sues is also active in promoting the value of natural history collections for addressing major questions in current science. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.