He is currently a Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Washington in Seattle,[1] as well as Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.
[5] Following his dissertation, Sidor held a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History (2001) before becoming an Assistant Professor in Anatomy at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Presently, he is a full Professor in Biology at the University of Washington, as well as a Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Director for Research and Collections at the affiliated Burke Museum.
"[13] However, Sidor has been involved with research on a diverse array of other Paleozoic and Mesozoic tetrapod clades, including temnospondyl amphibians;[14][15][16] captorhinid reptiles;[17][18] pseudosuchian archosaurs;[19][20][21] and avemetatarsalian archosaurs,[22][23][24][25][26][27] encompassing a wide-ranging research program focusing on descriptive anatomy, taxonomy and phylogenetics, histology and pathology, trends in biogeography, and responses of tetrapods to major climatic perturbations.
Sidor has extensive experience collecting and researching fossils from historically less well-sampled geographic regions, including Niger,[28] Tanzania,[29] Zambia,[30] and Antarctica.