2014-2019
HBO (College) – Life Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht
Specialization: Molecular biology; Bio molecular research (biotechnology, cell biology and metabolic diseases)

2019-2020
Premaster (University) – Earth sciences at Utrecht University (60 EC)

2020-2022
Master (University) – Earth, Life and Climate at Utrecht University (120 EC)
Interships: Research to a new flagellicaudatan sauropod and microfossils from the Morrison Formation, USA
Thesis: Research to the taxonomy, porosity, and preservation of pigments of dinosaur eggs in the Dutch museums

I am an interdisciplinary paleobiologist with broad interests in revealing the history and future of life on our changing planet, with particular interests in the exploration of fossil biomolecules and their encoded biosignatures. I explore molecular and morphological physiological insights to understand the evolutionary mechanisms leading to the independent emergence of gigantism in the past, and I aim to elucidate the extinction susceptibility of large-bodied terrestrial animals in the face of environmental and ecosystem change. I believe that understanding the mechanisms of macroevolution has the potential to inform long-term biodiversity conservation strategies in this critical moment of global change. I currently conduct my research in affiliation with the Oertijdmuseum in the Netherlands, and John Hopkins University in the United States.

Published

• van der Linden, T.T.P., de Zeeuw, T., Creuwels, J., & Gassó Miracle, E. (2023a). Teylers Museum - Öhningen Fossil Collection. Teylers Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/p438tp
• van der Linden, T.T.P., de Zeeuw, T., Creuwels, J., & Gassó Miracle, E. (2023b). Teylers Museum - Maastricht Fossil Collection. Version 1.2. Teylers Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jfzgkb
• van der Linden, T.T.P., de Zeeuw, T., Creuwels, J., & Gassó Miracle, E. (2023c). Teylers Museum - Solnhofen Fossil Collection. Version 1.3. Teylers Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/83cczk
• van der Linden, T.T.P., de Zeeuw, T., Creuwels, J., & Gassó Miracle, E. (2023d). Teylers Museum - Type specimens Fossil Collection. Version 1.6. Teylers Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/x9ehbh
• van der Linden, T.T.P., Zelenitsky, D.K., Fraaije, R.H.B., Garcia, G., Valentin, X., Holwerda, F.M., & Schulp, A.S. (2024a). The first hadrosauroid eggshell from the Aix-en-Provence Basin (late maastrichtian) of France, Historical Biology, https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2380808
• van der Linden, T.T.P., Tschopp, E., Sookias, R.B., Wallaard, J.J.W., Holwerda, F.M., & Schulp, A.S. (2024b). A new diplodocine sauropod from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica, 27(3):a49. https://doi.org/10.26879/1380
• Jagt, J., & van der Linden, T.T.P. (2024). Opmerkelijke Luiks-Limburgse Krijtfossielen; Deel 55. Het geslacht van uitgestorven zee-egels bepaald. Natuurhistorish Maandblad, 11, 113, pp. 318-321. [English title: Remarkable Cretaceous fossils from Liège-Limburg; Part 55. The sex of fossil sea urchins determined]
• van der Linden, T.T.P., Taylor, M.P., Campbell, A., Curtice, B.D., Dederichs, R., Lerzo, L.N., Whitlock, J.A., Woodruff, D.C., & Tschopp, E. (2025). Introduction to Diplodocoidea. Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(2):a27. https://doi.org/10.26879/1506
• van der Linden, T.T.P., Wallaard, J.J.W., de Rijke, M., & Fraaije, R.H.B. (2025-accepted for publication). The first description of dinosaurian eggshell from the Maastrichtian Lance Formation, Wyoming, North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica