Professor Anjali Goswami elected a Fellow of the Royal Society

Anjali has maintained close links to GEE, contributing to teaching, project supervision and the development of joint postgraduate programmes between the Natural History Museum and the UCL Centre for Life’s Origin and Evolution (CLOE - a new centre for the study of evolution which she was involved in establishing).  Her continuing contributions to academic life at UCL are recognised by an honorary Professorship in GEE.

Anjali’s research focusses on the evolution of animal diversity in deep time. She combines studies of living species (mammals in particular) with their fossil relatives combining fieldwork, lab work and mathematical modelling to understand the complex shapes of organisms and the constraints that development and evolutionary history impose on these.

In 2022, Anjali was elected President of the Linnean Society of London, the world’s oldest active biological society and where Darwin’s theory of evolution was first presented in 1858. She has also had major roles in the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology and the International Society for Vertebrate Morphology.  She has been the recipient of medals and awards from the Humanists, the Palaeontological Association, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Zoological Society of London Scientific Medal, 2018, and the Linnean Society of London.

We are delighted to congratulate Anjali on this success which we know to be very well deserved.