Budd was born on 7 September 1968 in
Colchester (
Essex). He obtained his undergraduate degree at the
University of Cambridge and remained there, in the
Department of Earth Sciences, to continue his studies at a doctoral level by investigating the
Sirius Passet fossil
lagerstätte from the
Cambrian of
North Greenland. Budd then moved to Sweden as a
postdoc along with his PhD supervisor John Peel. and is a major critic of
molecular clocks current usage in determining the origin of animal and plant groups. He has edited
Acta Zoologica together with
Lennart Olsson; he has also edited the
Geological Magazine. == Accolades ==