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Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan grew up near Pretoria during the
height of the apartheid years. Pursuing a university carreer at a
historically white university was no easy task. She nevertheless completed
her degrees from B.Sc. to PhD. at the Zoology department and the Bernard
Price Institute of Palaeontology of the University of the Witwatersrand, in
record time; with a higher diploma in Education "sandwiched" in
between at the University
of Durban-Westville.
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Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
achinsam@botzoo.uct.ac.za
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Anusuya was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
and until recently held joint positions as a professor at the University of Cape Town's
Zoology Department and a specialist scientist at the South African
Museum. Presently she
is the director of the Natural History collection of the Iziko Museums of Cape Town. Anusuay is
highly respected world-wide for her work on microstructures of bones and
teeth of dinosaurs and fossil birds; and is fascinated by the lives they led,
and in finding new ways to engage with adults and children about her work.
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