STEAC Member: Dr. Michael Donoghue, Peabody Museum of Natural History

Dr. Michael Donoghue is Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History and G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He also holds faculty appointments in Yale’s Department of Geology and Geophysics and in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Dr. Donoghue’s research has focused on understanding the diversity and evolution of flowering plants, with field studies concentrated in China and Latin America. He has contributed to the conceptual development of phylogenetic systemic and historical biogeography, and co-founded TreeBASE, a database of phylogenetic knowledge. In addition to phylogenetic systematics, ongoing research at the Donoghue Lab focuses on character evolution, diversification, biogeography, and historical ecology.