Julius T. Csotonyi

Who is Julius T. Csotonyi?

Julius Thomas Csotonyi is a Canadian paleoartist and natural history illustrator living in Winnipeg, Canada. He specialises in photo-realistic restorations of dinosaurs, paleo-environments and extant animals. His techniques encompass both traditional and digital media. He has worked with several magazines and book publishing companies and museums, based in Canada, the US, Europe, Russia, Mexico and Australia.

Csotonyi was born in Hungary but his family moved to Canada in 1978. He completed a B.Sc. in Ecology and Environmental Biology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, followed by a M.Sc. in Ecology in the same university. He is currently finishing a PhD in microbiology at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. He has published research papers on pollination mutualisms in Utah, on the effects of trampling on moss in Jasper National Park in Alberta and on bacteria living in exotic deep ocean hydrothermal vent ecosystems and in terrestrial salt springs.