Rate My Professor Nicolas Campione

Dr. Nicolás Campione is a Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology within the Department of Earth Sciences, School of Environmental and Rural Science, at the University of New England. He earned a B.Sc. Honours in Earth Sciences with a concentration in Vertebrate Palaeontology from Carleton University, an M.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Toronto. His research combines traditional palaeontological practices, such as field-based and taxonomic studies, with quantitative techniques including morphometrics and phylogenetics to explore anatomical variation in the fossil record and correlate it with ecologically relevant data from extant taxa. Focusing on vertebrate palaeontology, particularly Mesozoic dinosaurs, his projects investigate dinosaur body size estimation and evolution, dietary reconstructions through tooth morphology, mid-Cretaceous vertebrate diversity in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia, Early Triassic vertebrate diversity in Tasmania, Late Cretaceous vertebrate diversity in Alberta, Canada, and the evolution and origins of dinosaur integument. He leads the Campione Palaeobiology Lab and participates in ongoing field programs like the Boreal Alberta Dinosaur Project.