INVITED SPAKERS
Xing Xu
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,
the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Dr. Xing Xu is a Director of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of London and an Honorary Research Associate at the Natural History Museum, London. His area of expertise is the systematics of Mesozoic dinosaurs in Asia. Recently, his research has been focusing on the evolution and development of feathered dinosaurs and the origin of birds. He has described more than 40 new dinosaur species discovered in various parts of China and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Philip Currie
University of Alberta, Canada
Dr. Philip J. Currie has published over 160 scientific papers, including descriptions of more than 20 dinosaur species.
His fieldwork spans North America, Mongolia, China, Argentina, and Antarctica. He served as an advisor for the establishment of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and has since contributed as a visiting researcher in both research and exhibitions. Notably, he co-authored the scientific paper on Fukuiraptor, a symbolic dinosaur of Fukui, making significant contributions to dinosaur research in the region for nearly 30 years.
Lawrence Witmer
Ohio University, U.S.A.
Dr. Lawrence M. Witmer is a Professor of Anatomy and Chang Ying-ChienProfessor of Paleontology at Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University. Renowned for pioneering the use of CT analyses and 3D visualization in dinosaur paleontology, he leads the WitmerLab, which investigates the functional anatomy of extinct and extant vertebrates. His research focuses on reconstructing soft tissues in dinosaurs and other archosaurs to understand their physiology and behavior.
Elena Cuesta
Bavarian State Collections of Natural History, Germany
Lindsay Zanno
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, U.S.A.
Dr. Lindsay Zannois a Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and an Associate Research Professor at NC State University, specializing in theropod dinosaurs and the origin of birds. She Zannohas discovered and named over a dozen new dinosaur species and leads major projects like the Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit. Zannoalso serves as President of The Jurassic Foundation and contributes to several scientific journals.
Suravech Suteethorn
Mahasarakham University, Thailand
Soichiro Kawabe
Fukui Prefectural University, Japan