Ethan Briggs
Key Info
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- Position Title
- Chadwick Biodiversity Fellow
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- Section
- Entomology Collection
- Branch
- Life and Geosciences
- Division
- Australian Museum Research Institute
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- Google Scholar Profile
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SUXymNsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Email Ethan Briggs
Dr Ethan Briggs is an evolutionary biologist whose research mainly explores the diversity and evolution of spiders spanning genomics, phylogenetics, population genetics, taxonomy, and biogeography. His work combines field expeditions, museum collections and cutting-edge genomic approaches to investigate how spiders have diversified over hundreds of millions of years, with a particular focus on mygalomorph spiders, which includes Australian tarantulas and funnel-web spiders.
Ethan is currently the Australian Museum’s Chadwick Biodiversity Fellow, working within the Entomology and Arachnology section. Before joining the Australian Museum, he completed his PhD at The University of Queensland, where he investigated the evolutionary history and diversity of Australian tarantulas. He then undertook postdoctoral researcher position at the University of Idaho, assembling chromosome-level spider genomes and using comparative genomics to reveal broad patterns of genome evolution across the spider tree of life.
Qualifications
- BSc (Honours), The University of Queensland, Australia
- PhD, The University of Queensland, Australia
Grants, awards and scholarships
- Selected finalist for Society of Systematic Biologists Ernest Mayr Award symposium 2024
- Selected finalist for Society for the Study of Evolution W.D. Hamilton Award symposium 2024
- Finalist – 3 Minute Thesis, The University of Queensland Wildcard final 2022
