Gregory Edgecombe

Greg Edgecombe

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

Gregory Donald Edgecombe FRS is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London. 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. 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.

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