Philip J. Currie

Phil Currie AOE FRSC
Currie in 2014
Born	(1949-03-13) March 13, 1949 (age 75) Brampton, Ontario, Canada[1]
Alma mater	University of Toronto McGill University
Known for	Dinosaurs
Spouse	Eva Koppelhus
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology
Institutions	Royal Alberta Museum Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology University of Alberta
Thesis	The Osteology and Relationships of Aquatic Eosuchians from the Upper Permian of Africa and Madagascar (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Robert L. Carroll
Website	apps.ualberta.ca/directory/person/pjcurrie

Philip John Currie AOE FRSC (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the 1980s, he became the director of the Canada-China Dinosaur Project, the first cooperative palaeontological partnering between China and the West since the Central Asiatic Expeditions in the 1920s, and helped describe some of the first feathered dinosaurs.^[1][2] He is one of the primary editors of the influential Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs,^[3] and his areas of expertise include theropods (especially Tyrannosauridae), the origin of birds, and dinosaurian migration patterns and herding behavior.^[4] He was one of the models for palaeontologist Alan Grant in the film Jurassic Park.^[5]