I have been employed with the Whiteside Museum of Natural History since 2016. I started off as the Live Animal Curator, where I was in charge of caring for live reptiles and amphibians in the museum's zoozeum. In 2019, I was promoted to Assistant Director.I'm an active member of the paleontological dig crew and has discovered numerous complete Dimetrodon skeletons, as well as the most elusive of the Permian animals, Seymouria. I'm also the museum's Marketing and Social Media Director.I have spent many years collecting fossils from the badlands of Wyoming, from the Oligocene and Eocene periods. I have also been conducting fossil-hunting expeditions in the Cretaceous Mesa Verde Formation in Wyoming. It is my mission to inspire the next generation of paleontologists, especially young women. Christopher Flis has worked in the museum and paleontology industry since 2004. He was born in Midland, Texas, and has also lived in Dublin, Ireland and London, England. Chris has worked for multiple museums throughout his career, including the Houston Museum of Natural Science, The Black Hills Institute of Geologic Research, and the Lafayette Natural History Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. Chris graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a degree in English and minors in History and French. His college studies also included geology and biology with emphasis in paleontology, anatomy, and evolutionary biology.