Victoria Herridge

Victoria Louise "Tori" Herridge, born 1980, is a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London and one of the founders of TrowelBlazers, which celebrates women archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists.

Victoria Louise "Tori" Herridge
OccupationPalaeontologist

Career

Herridge graduated with a first class degree in biology from University College London in 2002. After a master's degree at Imperial College London, she returned to University College London to gain a doctorate with a thesis titled "Dwarf Elephants on Mediterranean Islands: A Natural Experiment in Parallel Evolution". Her research addressed evolution of island mammals during the Pleistocene period and their responses to extreme climate change.[1][2] She is a founding editor-in-chief at the open access journal Open Quaternary.[3]

Science communication

Herridge delivered the 2012 Charles Lyell Award lecture at the British Science Festival[4] and co-wrote Who Do You Think You Really Are? for the Natural History Museum. The film was a Premier Award Winner in 2011. As well as her academic output she is a popular science writer: her work includes a piece on the ethics of cloning mammoths versus the importance of saving endangered elephants, and one on the importance of studying the history of women in science (with Brenna Hassett, Suzanne Pilaar Birch and Becky Wragg Sykes), both published in The Guardian.[5][6]

In November 2014 Herridge co-presented the Channel 4 documentary about the autopsy of the Maly Lyakhovsky Mammoth (aka "Buttercup").[7] She presented the 2016 Channel 4 series Walking Through Time and co-presented three series of Britain at Low Tide (2016, 2018 and 2019; series 1 with archaeologist Alex Langlands).[8][9] In January 2020 she presented Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets on Channel 4.[10]

References
  1. Herridge, Victoria; Lister, A.M. "Extreme insular dwarfism evolved in a mammoth". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 279: 3193–3200. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0671. PMC 3385739. PMID 22572206.
  2. "Dwarfism". The Geological Society. 2013-09-11.
  3. http://www.openquaternary.com/about/editorialteam/
  4. "British Science Festival 2012 – Focus on Geoscience". Geoscience Lines. 2012-08-29. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
  5. Herridge, Tori (2014-11-18). "Mammoths are a huge part of my life. But cloning them is wrong | Tori Herridge". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  6. Hassett, Brenna; Birch, Suzanne Pilaar; Sykes, Becky Wragg; Herridge, Victoria (2017-03-08). "The history of women in science shows us the fight is worth it". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
  7. "Woolly Mammoth: the Autopsy", Channel 4, 23 November 2014.
  8. Channel 4: Britain at Low Tide
  9. "Channel 4 announces two new commissions featuring Dr Tori Herridge". Channel 4. 15 Jun 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
  10. Channel 4: Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets - Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
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