Prof. Scott V. Edwards

Scott V. Edwards is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. Prof. Edward’s research focuses on aspects of avian biology such as evolutionary history, biogeography, disease ecology, population genetics, and comparative genomics. From 2013-2015 Prof. Edwards served as the Division Director of the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the US National Science Foundation. He has served as the President of Society for the Study of Evolution, the Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Genetic Association. In addition he was on National Geographic’s Committee for Research and Exploration, the Senior Advisory Boards of the NSF-funded US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), and on the Advisory Boards of the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Prof. Edwards is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009), a Member of the American Philosophical Society (2020), and a member the National Academy of Sciences (2015).