Contact: jmallet@oeb.harvard.edu
James Mallet was educated at Oxford (BA Zoology) and Austin, Texas (PhD Zoology). He is Emeritus Professor of Biological Diversity at University College London (UCL) and Professor in Residence at Harvard University. He also holds honorary positions at The Natural History Museum London and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. In 2008, he was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London for contributions to evolutionary biology.
His research has ranged from tropical field biology, applied entomology, systematics, evolutionary biology, population genetics and genomics. He has concentrated most effort on the genetics and evolution of ithomiine and heliconiine butterflies of South and Central American rainforests, and in understanding speciation and hybridization among species. He was corresponding author for both major Heliconius Genome Consortium publications, in Nature (2012) and Science (2019), which, among other results, documented genomic evidence for promiscuous gene flow among multiple species of Heliconius butterflies.
For further information, see: Jim Mallet's Research Pages