Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. he/him
Principal Lecturer
Director, College Park Scholars - Science and Global Change Program
Ph.D. Yale University, 1992
Contact
Office: CHM 1225B
Chemistry Building
8051 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742
Mailing Address
8000 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742
tholtz [at] umd [dot] edu
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Research Interests
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.'s research focuses on the origin, evolution, adaptations, and behavior of carnivorous dinosaurs, and especially of tyrannosauroids (Tyrannosaurus rex and its kin). More broadly, he has been involved in investigations of functional morphology and ichnology of feeding and locomotion, the role of ontogeny in dinosaur paleoecology, and Mesozoic paleobiogeography. He is also the creator and Faculty Director of the College Park Scholars-Science & Global Change program.