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Julien Karl Franck Kimmig Curriculum Vitae Kimmig Julien Karl Franck Kimmig Curriculum vitae Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery Pennsylvania State University 116 Deike Building University Park, PA, 16802 Phone: 785-766-2386 Email: [email protected] Education Ph.D. in Geology 2014 University of Saskatchewan (Canada) Thesis title: Taxonomy, taphonomy and paleocology of a new Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte from the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. M.Sc. in Biology 2009 Topic: Advanced Methods in Taxonomy and Biodiversity Imperial College London & Natural History Museum London (United Kingdom) B.Sc. in Geosciences 2008 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) Professional experience Collections Manager since August 2020 Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery Pennsylvania State University Research Affiliate since August 2019 Division of Invertebrate Paleontology University of Kansas Collections Manager June 2016 – July 2019 Division of Invertebrate Paleontology University of Kansas Research Associate July 2015 – June 2019 University of Saskatchewan Postdoctoral Researcher October 2014 – June 2015 Supervisor: Brian Pratt University of Saskatchewan Teaching Assistant September 2011 – September 2014 University of Saskatchewan Adjunct Researcher September 2009 – May 2011 Supervisor: Alison Longbottom 1 Kimmig The Natural History Museum London Museum and Research Assistant December 2007 – September 2008 Supervisor: Mike Reich Geowissenschaftliches Museum Göttingen Selected fieldwork (Total ~ 160 days) Cambrian, Utah and Idaho, 2019 10 days Spence Shale, Wellsville Mountains, Utah, 2018 5 days Spence Shale, Wellsville Mountains, Utah, 2017 15 days Ravens Throat River, Mackenzie Mountains, Canada, 2012 28 days PhD fieldwork Selected outreach activities Lawrence South Middle School fossil collecting day May 2019 Prehistoric Aquarium Adventure, Cambrian of Utah April 2019 Kansas City Gem and Mineral Show March 2019 Lawrence South Middle School fossil collecting day May 2018 Biodiversity Institute, Stand up for Science April 2018 Kansas City Gem and Mineral Show March 2018 Invertebrate Paleontology Collections Tour for the Kansas November 2017 and Missouri Paleontological Society University of Kansas National Fossil Day October 2017 Kansas City Gem and Mineral Show March 2017 University of Kansas Party in the Panorama October 2016 Recent grants and honors Institute of Museum and Library Services applied November 2020 Snider PI, Kimmig Co-PI, Cook Co-PI Value: $47.696 2 Kimmig Karl Hirsch Memorial Grant, Western Interior Paleontological Society April 2020 Kimmig PI Value: $1.000 Emerging Scholars Program, University of Kansas, Research Grant April 2019 Kimmig PI, Lieberman Co-PI Value: $4.500 Emerging Scholars Program, University of Kansas, Research Grant July 2018 Kimmig PI, Lieberman Co-PI Value: $2.500 Jeanette Johnson Professional Development Award May 2018 Kimmig PI Value: $300 The Association of Earth Science Clubs of Greater Kansas City, Inc. March 2018 Research Grant Kimmig PI Value: $500 Emerging Scholars Program, University of Kansas, Research Grant August 2017 Kimmig PI, Lieberman Co-PI Value: $2.500 Paleontological Society Arthur James Boucot Research Grant April 2017 Kimmig PI Value: $3.500 Supervised students research grants University of Kansas Undergraduate Research Award May 2019 Leibach PI Value: $1.000 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant April 2019 Whitaker PI Value: $1.250 Paleontological Society Kenneth E. & Annie Caster Student Research April 2019 Award Whitaker PI Value: $1.200 Biodiversity Institute Panorama Grant, University of Kansas, Research April 2019 Grant Whitaker PI Value: $1.000 3 Kimmig Geological Society of America South-Central Section Undergraduate April 2019 Research Grant Leibach PI Value: $300 The Association of Earth Science Clubs of Greater Kansas City, Inc. March 2019 Research Grant Whitaker PI Value: $500 Undergraduate students advised Nick Rose August 2016 – May 2020 Wade Leibach August 2016 – May 2020 Nom Masters student at University of Missouri Joey Tierney August 2016 – May 2020 Cortney Langley August 2016 – May 2018 Jennifer Rick August 2017 – October 2017 Kristopher Super August 2018 – May 2019 Jimmy Luu September 2018 – December 2018 Tanner Paniers January 2019 – April 2019 Graduate students advised Anna Whitaker (Masters) August 2018 – May 2020 Now Ph.D. student at University of Toronto Julie Taylor (Masters, co-advised) August 2018 – July 2019 Steven Byrum (Masters, co-advised) August 2017 – June 2019 Now Ph.D. student at University of Florida Teaching experience University of Kansas October 2016 Biol 225: Extinction events University of Saskatchewan September 2011–September 2014 Field school in Zortman Montana, Geol 308; Paleontology, Geol 247; Sedimentology, Geol 245; 5x Introduction to Geology, Geol 121 4 Kimmig Languages English – fluent French – fluent German – fluent Spanish – basic competency Italian – basic competency Computer skills Microsoft Office Specify 6 & 7 Adobe Illustrator EndNote Adobe Photoshop PastPerfect Museum software ArcGIS Adobe Premiere Pro R KE Emu – working knowledge PAUP Beast – basic competency IWork TNT – basic competency Memberships in professional associations Geological Society of America Paleontological Society Palaeontological Association Western Interior Paleontological Society 5 Kimmig Peer reviewed publications (25) (*Supervised Undergraduate Student; **Supervised Master’s Student) **Whitaker, Anna F. & Julien Kimmig (accepted) Unnatural Reflection: Anthropologically introduced biases in natural history collections, with a case study on the Spence Shale Lagerstätte of Utah. Palaeontologia Electronica. Bicknell, Russell D. C., Patrick Smith, Natalie Schroeder & Julien Kimmig (2020) Reconsidering the ‘phyllocarid’ from the Wade Creek Formation. Alcheringa. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2020.1820575 *Leibach, Wade. W, *Nick Rose, Kenneth Bader, Laura J. Mohr, *Kristopher Super & Julien Kimmig (2020) Horseshoe crab trace fossils and associated ichnofauna of the Pony Creek Shale Lagerstätte, Upper Pennsylvanian, Kansas, USA. Ichnos. DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2020.1811268 Kimmig, Julien & Paul A. Selden (2020) A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah. Palaeoworld. DOI: 10.1016/j.palwor.2020.05.003 Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy, Julien Kimmig, Stephen Pates, Jacob Skabelund, Andries Weug & Javier Ortega-Hernández (2020) New exceptionally-preserved panarthropods from the Drumian Wheeler Konservat-Lagerstätte of the House Range of Utah. Papers in Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1002/spp.1307 Yang, Xianfeng, Julien Kimmig, Bruce S. Lieberman & Shanchi Peng (2020) A new species of the deuterostome Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota of South China. The Science of Nature 107: 37. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-020-01695-w Kimmig, Julien, *Wade W. Leibach & Bruce S. Lieberman (2020) First occurrence of the problematic vetulicolian Skeemella clavula in the Cambrian Marjum Formation of Utah, USA. Carnets de Géologie 20: 215–221. DOI: 10.4267/2042/70836 **Whitaker, Anna, Paul Jamison, James D. Schiffbauer & Julien Kimmig (2020) Re- description of the Spence Shale palaeoscolecids in the light of new morphological features with comments on palaeoscolecid taxonomy and taphonomy. PalZ 94: 661– 674. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-020-00516-9 Article featured in news. Kimmig, Julien, Helena Couto, *Wade W. Leibach & Bruce S. Lieberman (2019) Soft-bodied fossils from the upper Valongo Formation (Middle Ordovician: Dapingian- Darriwilian) of northern Portugal. The Science of Nature 106: 27. DOI: 10.1007/s00114-019-1623-z Article featured in news. Kimmig, Julien, Sara R. Kimmig, Sven O. Egenhoff, Luke C. Strotz & Bruce S. Lieberman (2019) The Spence Shale Lagerstätte: an Important Window into Cambrian Biodiversity. Journal of the Geological Society of London 176: 609–619. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2018-195 Invited submission. 6 Kimmig Pratt, Brian R. & Julien Kimmig (2019) Extensive burrowing in a middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil Lagerstätte in northwestern Canada. Geology 47: 231–234. DOI: 10.1130/G45551.1 Article featured in news. Kimmig, Julien, Ronald C. Meyer & Bruce S. Lieberman (2019) Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian of Nevada (Series 2, Stage 4) and its implications for the evolution of deuterostomes. Geological Magazine 156: 172–178. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756818000389 Seltmann, Katja, … Julien Kimmig et al. (2018) Georeferencing for Research Use (GRU): An integrated geospatial training paradigm for biocollections researchers and data providers. Research Ideas and Outcomes 4: e32449. DOI: 10.3897/rio.4.e32449 Strotz, Luke C., Erin E. Saupe, Julien Kimmig & Bruce S. Lieberman (2018) Metabolic rates, climate and macroevolution: A case study using Neogene molluscs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20181292. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1292 Article featured in news. Lieberman, Bruce S. & Julien Kimmig (2018) Museums, Paleontology, and a Biodiversity Science Based Approach. In G. D. Rosenberg, & R. M. Clary (Eds.), Museums at the Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology: History Made, History in the Making. Geological Society of America Special Paper 535: 335–348. DOI: 10.1130/20182535(22) Strotz, Luke C., Marianna Simões, Matthew Girard, Laura Breitkreuz, Julien Kimmig & Bruce S. Lieberman (2018) Getting somewhere with the Red Queen: Chasing a biologically modern definition of the hypothesis. Biology Letters 14: 20170734. DOI: 10.1098/rslb.2017.0734 Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. 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