Congratulations to Professor Jonah Choiniere, GENUS grantee from the Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand for winning the 2025 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Carroll Award for consistent, outstanding research.

Jonah is leading researcher in vertebrate palaeobiology. Currently, he is leading a major research programme on the Stormberg Group, one of the world’s few terrestrial sequences preserving the complete Triassic–Jurassic transition. His work has produced a new stratigraphic framework for the Main Karoo Basin, the discovery and revision of several dinosaur and crocodylomorph taxa, and a far clearer picture of biotic and environmental change during the end-Triassic mass extinction. His field programme in Zimbabwe—the country’s first substantial palaeontological initiative in fifty years—has transformed understanding of its fossil faunas by establishing robust new stratigraphic standards and documenting abundant new material curated in local institutions. He is also deeply engaged in synchrotron-based research at the ESRF in Grenoble, using high-resolution imaging to investigate topics such as inner-ear anatomy, tooth replacement, respiratory biology, and osteohistology in dinosaurs, crocodylians, early diapsids, and parareptiles—continually expanding the limits of what fossil material can reveal.