Education
University of Southampton.
paleontologist university professor
University of Southampton.
Aldridge"s career began at Southampton University before moving to a temporary lectureship at University College London and then to Nottingham University where he remained until 1989 when, during the Oxburgh Review of Earth Sciences, he moved to his current institution, the University of Leicester, where he served two terms as Head of Department. Aldridge"s research has been focused primarily on the conodont biostratigraphy and palaeobiology and one of his seminal contributions has been to uncover the vertebrate nature of the long-enigmatic conodont animal, principally in collaboration with Derek Briggs and Euan Clarkson. This led naturally to Aldridge"s current research focus which is fossil Lagerstätten.
He was President of the Palaeontological Association and of the British Micropalaeontological Society (1995-1998).