Professional Titles

• Director, Department of Research and Collections
• Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Adjunct Professor of Geology, Virginia Tech

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Zoology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1978
• Honorary Masters Degree, Cambridge University, 1985
• Ph.D. in Geology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1984

 Professional Experience

• Editor of "Memoir" series of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
• Associate Editor of Zoological Society of the Linnean Society

Research Interests

• Terrestrial faunal change at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary
• Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Sphenodontia
• The origin of dinosaurs 

Selected Publications

• Fraser, N.C., Padian, K., Walkden, G. M. and Davis, A. L. M. 2002. Basal dinosauromorph  remains from Britain and the diagnosis of the Dinosauria. Palaeontology 45: 79-95.
• Selden, P. A., Anderson, J. M., Anderson, H. M. and Fraser, N. C. 1999. Fossil araneomorph spiders from the Triassic of South Africa and Virginia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 401-414
• Fraser, N. C. and Olsen, P. E. 1996. A new dinosauromorph ichnogenus from the Triassic of Virginia.Jeffersoniana 7: 1-20.
• Fraser, N.C., Grimaldi, D. A., Olsen, P. E. and Axsmith, B. 1996. A Triassic lagerstaette from eastern North America. Nature 380: 615-619.
• Fraser, N.C. and Sues, H.-D. (eds.). 1994. In the shadow of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, New York, 435 pp.
• Fraser, N. C. 1988. The osteology and relationships of Clevosaurus (Reptilia:Sphenodontida). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 321: 125-178.
• Fraser, N. C. 1982. A new Triassic rhynchocephalian from the British Upper Trias. Palaeontology 25: 709-725