Ivan Sansom

{{Short description|Welsh paleontologist}}

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| birth_place = Prestatyn, Wales

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| nationality = British

| field = Palaeontology

| work_institution = University of Birmingham

| alma_mater = University of Durham{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}
University of Aston{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}

| doctoral_advisor = Howard Armstrong and M. Paul Smith{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}

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| prizes = Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association

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Ivan Sansom (born Prestatyn{{citation needed|date=April 2011}}) is a British palaeontologist, Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham. His research has focused primarily on the conodont palaeobiology and the early Palaeozoic radiation of vertebrates.http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/sansomij.shtml University of Birmingham: Ivan Sansom (Accessed April 2011)

Sansom is an editor of the Journal of the Geological Society.http://jgs.lyellcollection.org/content/168/2/local/front-matter.pdf Journal of the Geological Society: Editorial Board (Accessed April 2011)

In 2001 Sansom was a recipient of the Palaeontological Association's Hodson Award, conferred on palaeontologists who have made a notable early contribution to the science.http://www.palass.org/modules.php?name=palaeo&page=119&sec=awards The Palaeontological Association: Hodson Award (Accessed April 2011)