| Graham E. Budd | |
| Birth Place: | Colchester, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Field: | Palaeontology |
| Work Institution: | Uppsala University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Simon Conway Morris John Peel[1] |
| Known For: | Early bilateral "Savannah" hypothesis |
| Prizes: | Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association President's Medal of the Palaeontological Association Nathorst Prize of the Geologiska Foreningen |
Graham Edward Budd is a British palaeontologist. He is Professor and head of palaeobiology at Uppsala University.[2] [3]
Budd's research focuses on the Cambrian explosion and on the evolution and development, anatomy, and patterns of diversification of the Ecdysozoa, a group of animals that include arthropods.[1]
Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in Colchester (Essex). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and remained there, in the Department of Earth Sciences, to continue his studies at a doctoral level by investigating the Sirius Passet fossil lagerstätte from the Cambrian of North Greenland.[1] He finished his doctorate in 1994, with one of the findings being a new species of lobopodian, Kerygmachela. Budd then moved to Sweden as a postdoc along with his PhD supervisor John Peel.[1]
Together with Sören Jensen he reintroduced the concepts of stem and crown groups to phylogenetics and is a major critic of molecular clocks current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups.
He has edited Acta Zoologica together with Lennart Olsson; he has also edited the Geological Magazine.