Michael S. Engel
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Michael S. Engel (born September 24, 1971 in Creve Coeur, Missouri) is a paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, and the Western Hemisphere, and published more than 200 papers in scientific journals. He gained his training at the University of Kansas where he received a B.S. in Cellular Biology and a B.A. in Chemistry in 1993, and at Cornell University where in 1998 he obtained his Ph.D. in Entomology. In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in insect paleontology. Dr. Engel is an authority on the geological history, phylogeny, and taxonomy of insects, and has made particular contributions to the systematics of living and fossil bees, particularly honey bees (genus Apis).
Among his positions are Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and joint appointments as Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Curator-in-Charge in the Division of Entomology of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas.
Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz, Daniel J. Bennett, Stephanie J. Swenson, Ming-luen Jeng, and Steven R. Davis are just some of his numerous students from all over the world [1].
With David Grimaldi, the greatest modern insect systematist and paleontologist, he is co-author of Evolution of the Insects (2005).
[edit] References
- Grimaldi, D. and Engel, M.S. (2005). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.
[edit] Eponymy
The following species have been proposed in honor of Dr. Engel:
- Lasioglossum (Dialictus) engeli Genaro (a halictid bee from Cuba)
- Braunsapis engeli Jobiraj (a small allodapine bee from southern India)
- Cretostylops engeli Grimaldi & Kathirithamby (the oldest fossil strepsipteran, from Myanmar)
