Josh Jenkins Shaw

Josh is a PhD student at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. His project, "Genomics-based approaches to the eco-systematic study of insect biodiversity from fragile, endangered ecosystems", supervised by Alexey Solodovnikov, as well as Chris Reid and Gerry Cassis from Sydney is focused on resolving the biogeography of Lord Howe Island using beetle phylogenetics, mostly the rove beetle subtribe Amblyopinina. His projects also involves systematic work on selected amblyopinine taxa. 
 
Josh is from the United Kingdom where he completed his BSc in Ecology at the University of East Anglia (Norwich) and his MSc in Entomology at Harper Adams University (Newport, Shropshire). He has focused on British beetles for a number of years and his MSc thesis consisted of studying horn allometry in three species of Bledius (Staphylinidae).
 
Josh has a keen interest in many aspects of natural history and also enjoys music and cycling. In BIG4, he aims to use an integrated approach of classical taxonomy and modern methods to understand the evolution of beetles on Lord Howe Island and South-West Pacific in general.

Read more about his project: "Genomics-based approaches to the eco-systematic study of insect biodiversity from fragile, endangered ecosystems"