John G Lundberg

John Lundberg is a systematist and ichthyologist with an active research program on tropical fish diversity and evolution. He received his PhD in 1970 at the University of Michigan, and has 41 years of postgraduate research, teaching and curatorial experience. He has published more than 90 papers in peer reviewed professional journals. He held tenured, full professorships at two Research-I universities - Duke (1970-1992) and the University of Arizona (1992-2000). He moved in early 2000 to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (ANSP) as Chaplin Chair and Curator of Ichthyology. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Pennsylvania (Biology) and a research associate appointment at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. John’s research includes living and fossil fishes. He has had NSF awards that supported exploration and documentation of the deep river channel biotas of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, the evolutionary history of South American catfishes, and a 5-year global inventory of all species of catfishes. At Duke and Arizona he taught undergraduate and graduate courses comparative anatomy, ichthyology, systematic methods and evolutionary biology. He has been major advisor to 13 PhD students and five postdoctoral scientists. At Duke he served as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Biology and at Arizona he directed an NSF-funded graduate training program in biological diversification. He was President of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 2009 and continues as a governor in that society. At the Academy he oversees, builds and promotes one of the world’s largest and most active research collections of fishes. John refers to the Academy’s Ichthyology Department as an “international crossroads for ichthyologists.”