Ane Elise Schrøder has a background in biology and geology, meaning she is a palaeontologist, and this month she started at 4DMAP.
During her Industrial PhD, Ane developed a new method based on Benchtop μXRF-element mapping, applying μXRF-element mapping as a taxonomical tool, demonstrating that amongst the fossil fishes of the Fur Formation and the underlying Stolleklint clay unit (Ølst Formation) of Denmark, are some of the earliest, and best preserved, articulated representatives of modern teleost lineages – on a global level – of which she described three new taxa, incorporating also palaeoecological interpretations.
As a recipient of the Carlsberg Foundation Fellowship, she worked on non-destructive analysis of fossils that are often are very valuable and difficult to study without damaging. However, testing the limits of µXRF-mapping she has been recording past and present climate impacts using fossils.
Having published numerous papers, Ane was listed amongst the top 100 most-cited authors in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology in November 2025.
