Gregory Edgecombe

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Greg Edgecombe
FRS
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Gregory Edgecombe at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2018
Born Gregory Donald Edgecombe
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Institutions University of Alberta
Australian Museum
Natural History Museum, London
Alma mater Acadia University (BSc)
University of Alberta (MSc)[2]
Columbia University (PhD)[3]
Thesis Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida (1991)
Doctoral advisor Niles Eldredge[3]
Notable awards Fenner Medal (2004)
Website
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/greg-edgecombe.html

Gregory Donald Edgecombe FRS [4] is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London.[5][6] He is a leading figure in understanding the evolution of arthropods, their position in animal evolution and the integration of fossil data into analyses of animal phylogeny.[4] As a palaeontologist, he is also an authority on the systematics of centipedes – and a morphologist whose work contributes to the growth and methods of analysis of molecular datasets for inferring evolutionary relationships.[4][1][7]

Education

Edgecombe was educated at Columbia University where he received a PhD in 1991 for systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida supervised by Niles Eldredge at the American Museum of Natural History.[3]

Career and research

After his PhD, Edgecombe was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, and worked as a researcher at the Australian Museum in Sydney for 14 years.[4] In 2007 he took up the position of research leader at the Natural History Museum, London, where since 2013 he has been a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) merit researcher.[4] With Gonzalo Giribet, he co-authored a textbook, The Invertebrate Tree of Life, published by Princeton University Press in March 2020.

Awards and honours

Edgecombe was awarded the president's medal by the Palaeontological Association in 2011 and the Fenner Medal for distinguished research in biology by the Australian Academy of Science in 2004.[4] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Gregory Edgecombe at Google Scholar
  2. ↑ Greg Edgecombe's Entry at ORCID
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  6. ↑ Gregory Edgecombe publications from Europe PubMed Central
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Closed access

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