Greg Edgecombe is a leading figure in understanding evolutionary interrelationships within Arthropoda, the most species-rich animal phylum over the past 520 million years, the position of arthropods in animal evolution, and the integration of fossil data into analyses of animal phylogeny. A palaeontologist, he is also an authority on systematic biology of a large group of living arthropods in tropical forests – centipedes – and a morphologist whose work contributes to the growth and methods of analysis of molecular datasets for inferring deep evolutionary relationships.

He received a PhD from Columbia University in 1991, conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Alberta, and worked as a Researcher at the Australian Museum for 14 years. In 2007 he took up the position of Research Leader at The Natural History Museum (London), where since 2013 he has been a NERC Merit Researcher.

Greg is recipient of the Palaeontological Association’s President’s Medal (2011) and the Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal for Distinguished Research in Biology (2004).