John F. Lawrence is one of the world’s preeminent
coleopterists; he worked at Harvard University’s Museum of
Comparative Zoology before emigrating to Australia, where he served
as a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Australian National
Insect Collection (CSIRO) until 1999. He has published more than
200 research articles and book chapters and was co-editor of a
recent volume of Handbook of Zoology and author or co-author of
more than 50 chapters in that volume. John is now retired but
continues to conduct research; he is a leading member of the Beetle
Tree of Life project's morphological phylogenetics section.
Adam Slipinski completed his PhD and DSc in Poland
where he worked for 20 years at the Museum and Institute of Zoology
of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw and held a joint
appointment as the professor of biology at the University of
Zielona Gora teaching entomology and environmental biology. He is
the author of over 100 research publications, editor of a
two-volume book on the phylogeny and classification of beetles and
an author of a book on Australian ladybird beetles. Adam’s research
concentrates on the phylogeny and higher classification of beetles.
With John Lawrence he is coordinating the morphological part of the
Beetle Tree of Life project.
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