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This is my abridged career history - for more details see our departmental website (www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staffcharleswellman.html)

Education

1991	Ph.D. Early land plant microfossils (Cardiff University)
1987	B.Sc. (Hons) Geology (University of Southampton)

Recent Appointments

1997 - present	Lecturer in the Department of Animal & Plant Sciences of the University of Sheffield
1994 - 1997	Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences of Cardiff University

Editorial Commitments

2000 - present

Editorial board of the journal Palaeontology.

Council Membership of Scientific Societies

2000 - present	Palaeontology Association
2000 - present	Commission Internationale de Microflore du Paleozoique
2000 - present	International Federation of Palynological Societies

Recent Lectures Describing my Research Findings

December 2002	Palaeontology Association meeting, Cambridge, UK "Tantalizing fragments of the earliest land plants"
September 2002	CIMP, Lille, France, "The use of spore characters in determining phylogenetic relationships among "trimerophytes" and their derivatives"
July 2002	1st International Palaeontological Conference, Sydney, Australia, "Recent advance in understanding of the microfossil record of early land plants"
September 2001	Systematics Association conference, London, "Dating the origin and early diversification of land plants: evidence from fossils and molecules"
April 2000	Evolution of plant physiology meeting, Linnean Society, London "Spore wall development in early land plants"
June 2000	International Palynological Conference, Nanjing, China "Spore assemblages from the Lower Devonian sequence of the Rhynie outlier: evidence for the palaeoecology of the Rhynie Chert plants"
June 1999	Royal Society Discussion Meeting on "Bryophyte phylogeny and interrelationships with early embryophytes" "The microfossil record for early land plants"