Hans-Dieter Sues

Hans-Dieter Sues (Rheydt, 1956) is a German-born American palaeontologist who is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Before assuming his present position, Sues worked as Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology and as Vice-President for Collections and Research at the Royal Ontario Museum and Professor of Zoology at the University of Toronto and as Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

Sues has discovered numerous new dinosaurs and other extinct terrestrial vertebrates in Paleozoic and Mesozoic continental strata in North America and Europe.

of Chicago Press, 1992), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods (with N. C. Fraser; Cambridge Univ.

He is also active in promoting the value of natural history collections for addressing major questions in current science.

The photograph shows Hans-Dieter Sues with the cast of a reconstructed skull of Brontosaurus at the Smithsonian.
Hans Sues with a cast of a Brontosaurus skull at the Smithsonian