Anjali Goswami is an evolutionary biologist at the Natural History Museum, London, specialising in vertebrate evolution and development, particularly in the emerging area of evolutionary phenomics. She and her group develop and apply new approaches to capturing the complex three-dimensional shapes of organisms in order to reconstruct the evolution of biodiversity. She is particularly interested in understanding how development, ecology and large-scale environmental change interact to shape animal evolution through deep time. Her work spans insects to dinosaurs, but her main interest is in the evolution of mammals. To fill key gaps in the palaeontological record, she has searched for fossils from Svalbard to Madagascar, with her primary fieldwork being based in South India.
She received her PhD from the University of Chicago and holds an honorary professorship at University College London.
She is the recipient of the Linnean Society Bicentenary Medal, the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal, the Hind Rattan Award, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Robert L. Carroll award, the Palaeontological Association President's Medal, and the Humanists UK Darwin Day Medal.
Professional position
- Merit Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, Natural History Museum, London
- President, Linnean Society of London
Subject groups
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Computer Sciences
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, vision
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Patterns in Populations
Biological modelling, Biological statistics, Evolution, Organismal animal biology including invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, Taxonomy and systematics
