Professor Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist on the faculty of the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He grew up in the Midwestern United States and has a BSc in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago, MSc in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, and PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University in New York. Steve is widely recognized as one of the leading palaeontologists of his generation. He has written over two hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers during his twenty years of research in the field, named and described over a dozen new species of dinosaurs and mammals, and led groundbreaking studies on how dinosaurs rose to dominance and went extinct, and how birds evolved from carnivorous dinosaurs closely related to Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor. His book The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into over twenty languages, and he is the science consultant for the Jurassic World film franchise and BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs.