Dr.PITTMAN, Michael

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science, HKU

BSc, MSc, PhD (UCL)

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Teaching area

Dinosaur Palaeobiology
Petrology

Research Interests

Dinosaur evolution, particularly avian & flight origins
Fossil imaging, including Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence
Evolutionary biomechanics of vertebrates, especially of dinosaurs

Publications

Pittman, M.andXu, X. (editors). 2020. Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs: past progress &new frontiers. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 320pp, in press?.
?Xu, X.*, Currie, P.*,Pittman, M.*, Xing, L.D., Meng, Q.J., Lü, J.C., Dong, H.Y. andYu, C.Y. 2017.Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur withtransitional features.Nature Communications, 8: 14972.[*joint first-author]?
?Xu, X.*, Currie, P.*,Pittman, M.*, Xing, L.D., Meng, Q.J., Lü, J.C., Dong, H.Y.
andYu, C.Y. Mosaic evolution in an asymmetrically feathered troodontid dinosaur with
transitional features.Nature Communications, 8: 14972.[*joint first-author]

Wang, X.L.*,Pittman, M*, Zheng, X.T., Kaye, T., Falk, A., Hartman, S. & Xu, X.
Basal paravian functional anatomy illuminated by high-detail body outline.Nature
Communications, 8: 14576.[*joint first-author]
Yang, Z.X., Jiang, B.Y., McNamara, M.E., Kearns, S.L.,Pittman, M., Kaye, T.G., Orr, P.J., Xu, X. & Benton, M.J. Pterosaur integumentary structures with complex feather-like branching.Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3: 24-30.

Awards and Honors

Award for Teaching Innovation in E-Learning 2017-18, HKU Faculty of Science
Finalist for 2018 edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning