David Grimaldi

Who is David Grimaldi?

David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He received his graduate training at Cornell University, where he earned his doctorate in Entomology in 1986. Dr. Grimaldi is an authority in many fields of insect systematics, paleontology, and evolutionary biology.

Dr. Grimaldi is also an adjunct professor at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York.

Aside from numerous papers in some of the leading scientific journals, Grimaldi is author of Amber: Window to the Past, and of Evolution of the Insects with co-author Michael S. Engel.