Ivan Sansom

Ivan Sansom
Born
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Durham
University of Aston
AwardsHodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association
Scientific career
FieldsPalaeontology
InstitutionsUniversity of Birmingham
Doctoral advisorHoward Armstrong and M. Paul Smith

Ivan Sansom (born Prestatyn) 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.

Sansom is an editor of the Journal of the Geological Society.

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.