Jeremy deWaard

Jeremy deWaard is the Associate Director for Collections at the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Canada. He completed his undergraduate and MSc degrees in Guelph, followed by his PhD at the University of British Columbia. He is now responsible for leading a team of thirty staff and students, managing a natural history collection of nearly nine million invertebrate specimens, and overseeing the operations and research initiatives linked to the acquisition and processing of specimens for DNA barcode analysis. His research focuses on biological inventories, biosurveillance, protocol development, and the integrative systematics of terrestrial arthropods, particularly macromoths. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Guelph, a Subject Editor for The Canadian Entomologist, a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, and a board member of the Arthropods Specialist Subcommittee for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.