Anjali Goswami

Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami
Alma mater	University of Michigan; University of Chicago;
Awards	Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society (2016); Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal (2018); Hind Rattan ('Jewel of India') Award (2020); Palaeontological Association President's Medal (2021); Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Robert Lynn Carroll award (2021);
	Scientific career
Fields	Palaeobiology; Evolutionary Biology;
Institutions	Natural History Museum (present); University College London; University of Cambridge;
Thesis	The evolution of morphological integration in the mammalian skull (2005)
Doctoral advisor	John Flynn
Website	www.goswamilab.com

Anjali Goswami is a Resesarch Leader and Dean of the Graduate Centre at the Natural History Museum. She is an Honorary Professor of Paleobiology at University College London (UCL) in the Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment. She was elected President of the Linnean Society of London, in 2022 and is the first person of colour elected to this role since its founding in 1788. Goswami's expertise is in vertebrate evolution and development, particularly using high-resolution 3D images of specimens to quantify and reconstruct the evolution of biodiversity and understand how development, ecology and large-scale environmental effects have shaped animal evolution through deep time.

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