Research Assistants

• Lily Berniker Scientific Assistant
• Pamela Horsley Scientific Assistant
• Andrew Johnston Scientific Assistant
• Christine Lebeau Scientific Assistant
• Sarfraz Lodhi Senior Scientific Assistant
• Ruth Salas Scientific Assistant
• Louis N. Sorkin Senior Scientific Assistant
• Eli Wyman Scientific Assistant

Preparators

• Melody Doering Curatorial Assistant
• Suzanne Rab Green Curatorial Assistant
• Jane Mills Curatorial Assistant

Special Projects Staff

• Hadel Go Databasing Assistant
• Elaine Guevara Databasing Assistant
• Lin Hong Computer Programmer
• Sarah Kornbluth Preparator
• Nicholas Lucaroni Computer Programmer
• Apurva Narechania Programmer
• Paul Nascimbene Fossil Insect Research, Preparation & Collections
• Katja Seltmann Project Manager
• Stephen Thurston Imaging Expert
• Signe Valentinsson Databasing Assistant
• Chantal-Marie Wright Databasing Assistant

Laboratory Management

• Mohammad Faiz Laboratory Manager, Molecular Systematics
• Patricia Rubi Laboratory Technician
• Ellen Trimarco Laboratory Manager

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Angelo Bolzern Post-doctoral Fellow
• Rick Baker Post-doctoral Researcher
• Mercer Brugler Post-doctoral Researcher
• Ron Clouse Post-doctoral Researcher
• Louise Crowley Post-doctoral Researcher
• Lavanya Kannan Post-doctoral Researcher
• Prashant Sharma Post-doctoral Researcher
• Aaron Smith Post-doctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

• Phillip Barden Ph.D. Student
• Samuel Crane Ph.D. Student
• Bryan Falk Ph.D. Student
• Edmundo Gonzalez Ph.D. Student
• Alejandro Grajales Ph.D. Student
• Sebastian Kvist Ph.D. Student
• Stephanie F. Loria Ph.D. Student
• Ansel Payne Ph.D. Student
• Kari Schmidt Ph.D. Student
• Carly Tribull Ph.D. Student
• Isabelle Vea Ph.D. Student

Volunteers

• Jill Cashman Volunteer for Lepidoptera
• Howard Fiedler Volunteer for Scorpiones
• Arnold Fleischer Volunteer for Heteroptera
• Jeremy Frank Tri-trophic Digitization Project
• Steve Fratello Volunteer for Lepidoptera
• Tom Gartner Volunteer for Araneae
• Dan Jacobs Volunteer
• Ilse Kaim Volunteer
• Devin Kreitman Tri-trophic Digitization Project
• Patricia Malkin Illustrator
• Laura Moustakerski Volunteer
• Tom Sullivan Volunteer for Araneae

Former Staff

• Matthias Burger Post-doctoral Researcher
• Megan Cevasco Post-doctoral Researcher
• Angelica Cibrian-Jaramillo Post-doctoral Researcher
• Kamenz, Carsten Post-doctoral Researcher
• Isabella Kappner Post-doctoral Researcher
• Jessica Ware Post-doctoral Researcher
• Amir Yassin Post-doctoral Researcher

Associates

• Amy Berkov Associate

Visiting Scientists

• Martin Mendez Ph.D., Columbia University
• Aloysius Phillips Columbia University
• Howard Rosenbaum Ph.D., WCS & AMNH
• Boris Zakharov Visiting Scientist

Research Scientists

• John Ascher Research Scientist

Resident Research Associates

• Kumar Krishna Resident Research Associate

Research Associates

• Donat Agosti Ph.D., Naturmuseum der Burgergemeinde
• Dalton de Souza Amorim Ph.D., Universidade de Sao Paolo
• Claudia Arango Ph.D., Queensland Museum
• Tharina Bird M.Sc., National Museum of Namibia
• Arthur Bogan Ph.D., NC State Museum of Natural Sciences
• Jason Bond Ph.D., Eastern Carolina University
• Elizabeth Borda Ph.D., Auburn University
• Art Borkent Ph.D., AMNH
• Christopher Boyko Research Associate
• Carlos Roberto Brandao Ph.D., Museu de Zoologia
• Andrew Brower Ph.D., Oregon State University
• Matt Buffington Ph.D., National Museum of Natural History
• Eugene Burreson Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• Jane Carlton Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine
• Gerry Cassis Ph.D., Australian Museum
• Jae Choe Ph.D., Ewha Womans University
• Frederick Coyle Ph.D., Western Carolina University
• Jeff Cumming Ph.D., Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
• Bryan Danforth Ph.D., Cornell University
• Liliana Davalos-Alvarez Ph.D., SUNY Stony Brook
• Jacques Delabie Ph.D., Centro de Pesquisa do Cacau
• Phil DeVries Ph.D., University of Oregon
• Michael Dolan Ph.D., University of Massachusettes
• Jacques Dubois Ph.D., Natural History Museum, London
• Emmett Duffy Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Science
• Michael Engel Ph.D., University of Kansas
• James Farris Ph.D., Swedish Natural History Museum, Stockholm
• Douglas Futuyma Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Gonzalo Giribet Ph.D., Harvard University
• Pablo Goloboff Ph.D., Tucuman, Argentina
• David Gruber Ph.D., Baruch College
• Robert Hanner Ph.D., University of Guelph
• Mark Harvey Ph.D., Western Australian Museum
• Thomas Henry Ph.D. Plant Sciences Institute, USDA
• Richard Hoffman Ph.D., Virginia Museum of Natural History
• Mande Holford Ph.D., CUNY - Hunter College
• Gustavo Hormiga Ph.D., George Washington University
• Daniel Janies Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Rudy Jocque Ph.D., Musee Royal, Tervuren Belgium
• Norman F. Johnson Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• Jun-ichi Kojima Ph.D., Ibaraki University, Japan
• John Lee Ph.D., CUNY - City College
• Michael J. Lemke Ph.D., University of Illinois
• James Liebherr Ph.D., Cornell University
• Zhiwei Liu Ph.D., Eastern Illinois University
• Robert Longair Ph.D., University of Calgary
• Kenneth MacDonald Ph.D., Rutgers University
• Lubomir Masner Ph.D., Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
• Peter Michalik Ph.D., Ernst Moriz Arndt Universitaet
• Charles Michener Ph.D., University of Kansas
• Mary Mickevich Ph.D., NOAH Smithsonian
• Dr. James S. Miller Research Associate, Lepidoptera
• Patrick M. O'Grady Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• Weston Opitz Ph.D., Kansas Wesleyan University
• Vladimir Ovtcharenko Ph.D., Hostos Community College
• Carla Maria Penz Ph.D., University of New Orleans
• John Pickering Ph.D., Discoverlife
• Paul J. Planet Ph.D., M.D., Columbia University Medical Center
• John T. Polhemus Research Associate, Invertebrate Zoology
• Martin J. Ramirez Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
• Robert J. Raven Ph.D., Queensland Museum
• Stefan Richter Ph.D., Universitaet Rostock
• Arturo Roig-Alsina Ph.D., IADIZA
• Kimberly N. Russell Ph.D., NJ Institue of Technology
• Luisa Ruz Ph.D., Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
• Valerie Schawaroch Ph.D., Baruch College
• Susanne Schulmeister Ph.D., University of Munich
• Michael Schwartz Ph.D., Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• William A. Shear Ph.D., Hampden-Sydney College
• Sascha H. Spector Ph.D., Scenic Hudson
• Katherine St. John Ph.D., CUNY - Lehman College
• Julian Stark Ph.D., Queensborough Community College
• John H. Tietjen Resident Research Associate
• Gediminas Valkiunas Ph.D., Center for Tropical Research
• David Wagner Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• Christiane Weirauch Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
• John W. Wenzel Ph.D., Powerdermill Nature Reserve
• Quentin D. Wheeler Ph.D., Arizona State University
• Montgomery D. Wood Research Associate, Invertebrate Zoology
• Tomohide Yasunaga Ph.D., Rajamangala University of Technology