Gregory Edgecombe
Gregory Edgecombe | |
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 Edgecombe in 2018 | |
| Alma mater | Acadia University University of Alberta[3] Columbia University[2] |
| Awards | Fenner Medal (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | University of Alberta Australian Museum Natural History Museum, London |
| Thesis | Systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Niles Eldredge[2] |
| Website | www |
Gregory Donald Edgecombe is a paleontologist who is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London.[4][5] 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.[6] 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.[6][1][7]
Education
[edit | edit source]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.[2]
Career and research
[edit | edit source]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.[6] 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.[6] With Gonzalo Giribet, he co-authored a textbook, The Invertebrate Tree of Life, published by Princeton University Press in March 2020.
Awards and honours
[edit | edit source]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.[6] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018.[6] In 2024, a new megacheiran arthropod, Lomankus edgecombei was named after Edgecombe.[8]
References
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