Richard James Butler is a vertebrate palaeontologist at the University of Birmingham, where he holds the title of professor of palaeobiology.
[1] Butler's undergraduate degree is a BSc in geology from the University of Bristol (2002).
From 2009 through 2011, he held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the GeoBio-Center, in Munich, Germany, followed for 2011–2013 as junior research group leader there.
In 2017 he was appointed to a personal chair at Birmingham as professor of paleobiology.
[1] According to his web page at Birmingham,[1] his interests are: His most cited papers, according to Google Scholar[2] are: He has received The President's Medal from the Palaeontological Association in 2023[3]