Invertebrate Zoology Staff
Division Chair
- James M. Carpenter Division Chair, Peter J. Solomon Family Curator, non-Apoidea Hymenoptera
Administrative
- Jodi Green Division Administrator
- Mohammad Ahsan Faiz Senior Business Manager, Institutes for Comparative Genomics
Collection Management
- Christine Johnson Curatorial Associate
Curators
- Cheryl Y. Hayashi Senior Vice President and Provost of Science, Curator and Professor of Invertebrate Zoology, Leon Hess Director of Comparative Biology Research
- David A. Grimaldi Curator for amber, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and minor holometabolous orders
- Estefanía Rodríguez Curator, Cnidaria, Crustacea, Other Invertebrate Phyla
- Jessica Goodheart Assistant Curator, Mollusca
- Jessica Ware Associate Curator
- Lorenzo Prendini Curator, Arachnida, Myriapoda Collections
- Robert DeSalle Curator, Molecular Systematics
- Ward Wheeler Curator, Computational Science, Molecular Systematics
Emeritus Curators
- Jerome G. Rozen Curator Emeritus, Apoidea Collection
- Lee Herman Curator Emeritus, Coleoptera
- Norman I. Platnick† Curator Emeritus, Division of Invertebrate Zoology
- Randall T. Schuh George T. Willett Curator Emeritus, Hemiptera, Minor Orders
Collections Staff
- Agnieszka (Aga) Pierwola Museum Specialist
- Christine LeBeau Senior Museum Specialist
- Corey Smith Senior Museum Specialist
- Eva Marie Larsen Curatorial Assistant
- Lily Berniker Senior Museum Specialist
- Melody Doering Curatorial Assistant
- Pio Colmenares Museum Specialist
- Ruth Salas Senior Museum Specialist
- Suzanne Rab-Green Curatorial Assistant
Special Projects Staff
- Stephen Thurston Senior Museum Specialist
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Aaron A. Heiss, Ph.D Post-doctoral Researcher
- Benjamin Titus, Ph.D. Post-doctoral Fellow
- Louise Crowley Post-doctoral Researcher, Invertebrate Zoology
- Mar Ferrer-Suay Post-doctoral Researcher
- Ricardo Botero-Trujillo Theodore Roosevelt Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Rick Baker Post-doctoral Researcher
- Steve Davis Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
- Kari Schmidt Ph.D. Student
- Stephanie F. Loria Ph.D. Student, Richard Gilder Graduate School
Volunteers
- Arnold Fleischer Volunteer for Heteroptera
- Dan Jacobs Volunteer
- Howard Fiedler Volunteer for Scorpions
- Louis N. Sorkin Volunteer
- Patricia Malkin Illustrator
- Tom Gartner Volunteer for Araneae
- Tom Sullivan Volunteer for Araneae
Research Scientists
- John Ascher Research Scientist
Field Associates
- Parker Gambino, Ph.D. Field Associate
Associates
- Amy Berkov Associate
Visiting Scientists
- Aloysius Phillips Columbia University
- Boris Zakharov Visiting Scientist
- Martin Mendez Ph.D., Columbia University
Research Associates
- Aaron Smith Research Associate
- Alejandro Grajales, Ph.D. Research Associate
- Alex de Voogt Research Associate
- Andrew Brower Ph.D., Oregon State University
- Art Borkent Ph.D., AMNH
- Arthur Bogan Ph.D., NC State Museum of Natural Sciences
- Arturo Roig-Alsina Ph.D., IADIZA
- Bryan Danforth Ph.D., Cornell University
- Carla Maria Penz Ph.D., University of New Orleans
- Carlos Roberto Brandao Ph.D., Museu de Zoologia
- Christiane Weirauch Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
- Christopher Boyko Ph.D., Hofstra University
- Claudia Arango Ph.D., Queensland Museum
- Dalton de Souza Amorim Ph.D., Universidade de Sao Paolo
- Daniel Janies Ph.D., The Ohio State University
- David Gruber Ph.D., Baruch College
- David Wagner Ph.D., University of Connecticut
- Donat Agosti Ph.D., Naturmuseum der Burgergemeinde
- Douglas Futuyma Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook
- Dr. James S. Miller Lepidoptera
- Elizabeth Borda Ph.D., Auburn University
- Emmett Duffy Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Science
- Eugene Burreson Ph.D., Virginia Institute of Marine Science
- Eunsoo Kim Resesarch Associate
- Frederick Coyle Ph.D., Western Carolina University
- Gediminas Valkiunas Ph.D., Center for Tropical Research
- Gerry Cassis Ph.D., Australian Museum
- Gonzalo Giribet Ph.D., Harvard University
- Gustavo Hormiga Ph.D., George Washington University
- Jacques Delabie Ph.D., Centro de Pesquisa do Cacau
- Jacques Dubois Ph.D., Natural History Museum, London
- Jae Choe Ph.D., Ewha Womans University
- James Farris Ph.D., Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Sweden
- James Liebherr Ph.D., Cornell University
- Jane Carlton Ph.D., NYU School of Medicine
- Jason Bond Ph.D., Eastern Carolina University
- John H. Tietjen Resident Research Associate
- John Lee Ph.D., CUNY - City College
- John Pickering Ph.D., Discoverlife
- John T. Polhemus Invertebrate Zoology
- John W. Wenzel Ph.D., Powerdermill Nature Reserve
- Julian Stark Ph.D., Queensborough Community College
- Jun-ichi Kojima Ph.D., Ibaraki University, Japan
- Katherine St. John Ph.D., CUNY - Lehman College
- Kenneth MacDonald Ph.D., Rutgers University
- Kimberly N. Russell Ph.D., NJ Institue of Technology
- Lubomir Masner Ph.D., Agriculture
- Luciana Gusmão, Ph.D. Research Associate
- Luisa Ruz Ph.D., Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso
- Mande Holford Ph.D., CUNY - Hunter College
- Mark Harvey Ph.D., Western Australian Museum
- Martin J. Ramirez Ph.D., Loyola Marymount University
- Mary Mickevich Ph.D., NOAH Smithsonian
- Matt Buffington Ph.D., National Museum of Natural History
- Mercer Brugler Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette
- Michael Dolan Ph.D., University of Massachusettes
- Michael Engel Ph.D., University of Kansas
- Michael J. Lemke Ph.D., University of Illinois
- Michael Schwartz Ph.D., Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Montgomery D. Wood Research Associate, Invertebrate Zoology
- Norman F. Johnson Ph.D., The Ohio State University
- Pablo Goloboff Ph.D., Tucuman, Argentina
- Patrick M. O'Grady Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- Paul J. Planet Ph.D., M.D., Columbia University Medical Center
- Peter Michalik Ph.D., Ernst Moriz Arndt Universitaet
- Phil DeVries Ph.D., University of Oregon
- Phillip Barden Assistant Professor, NJ Institute of Technology
- Quentin D. Wheeler Ph.D., Arizona State University
- Richard Hoffman Ph.D., Virginia Museum of Natural History
- Robert Hanner Ph.D., University of Guelph
- Robert J. Raven Ph.D., Queensland Museum
- Robert Longair Ph.D., University of Calgary
- Rudy Jocque Ph.D., Musee Royal, Tervuren Belgium
- Sascha H. Spector Ph.D., Scenic Hudson
- Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- Stefan Richter Ph.D., Universitaet Rostock
- Susanne Schulmeister, Ph.D. University of Munich
- Tharina Bird M.Sc., National Museum of Namibia
- Thomas Henry Ph.D. Plant Sciences Institute, USDA
- Tomohide Yasunaga Ph.D., Rajamangala University of Technology
- Valerie Schawaroch Ph.D., Baruch College
- Vladimir Ovtcharenko Ph.D., Hostos Community College
- Weston Opitz Ph.D., Kansas Wesleyan University
- William A. Shear Ph.D., Hampden-Sydney College
- Zhiwei Liu Ph.D., Eastern Illinois University