CURRICULUM VITAE - Wm. Leo Smith
Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2005
M.Phil., Columbia University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2002
Certificate, Columbia University, Environmental Policy, 2002
M.S., Villanova University, Biology, 2001
B.S., University of California, San Diego, General Biology, 1997
Professional Experience:
University of Kansas:
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2016-
Associate Curator, Biodiversity Institute, 2016-
Curator-in-charge, Ichthyology, Biodiversity Institute, 2013-
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2013-2016
Assistant Curator, Biodiversity Institute, 2013-2016
Research Associate, Biodiversity Institute, 2006-2013
The Field Museum:
Research Associate, Department of Science and Education, 2013-
Associate Curator, Department of Science and Education, The Field Museum, 2013-2013
Assistant Curator, Department of Zoology, The Field Museum, 2007-2012
Head, Division of Fishes, The Field Museum, 2008-2013
Other Experience:
Faculty Member, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 2008-2013
Lerner-Gray Postdoctoral Fellow, American Museum of Natural History, 2005-2007
Graduate Research Fellow, Columbia University, 1999-2005
Graduate Research Assistant/Fellow, Villanova University, 1997-1999
Herbert R. Axelrod Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1997
Grants:
National Science Foundation:
NSF DEB-1258141, Collaborative research: Collaborative Research: Diversification in the Deep-Sea and the Evolution of Fangs, Bioluminescence, Hermaphroditism, and Marine Habitat Transitions (with PIs M.P. Davis and J.P. Sparks), $425,000, 2013-2016.
NSF DEB-1060869, Collaborative research: Causes and consequences of exceptional diversity in spiny-rayed fishes (with PIs P.C. Wainwright and T.J. Near), $288,507, 2011-2014.
NSF EF-0732642, Collaborative Research: Assembling the Euteleost Tree of Life - Addressing the Major Unresolved Problem in Vertebrate Phylogeny (with PIs R.E. Broughton, K.E. Carpenter, T.C. Grande, J. A. Lopez, G. Lu, G. Ortí, E.O. Wiley, and co-PIs J. Diamond, N.I. Holcroft, G.D. Johnson, and C. Li), $2,999,885, FMNH cover sheet $261,598, 2007-2012
NSF DEB-0716155, Collaborative Research: Phylogenetics and Key Innovations in Labroid Fishes (with PIs P.C. Wainwright and T.J. Near), $449,999, 2007-2010
NSF DEB-0405246, Dissertation Research: Scorpionfish (Teleostei: Scorpaenoidei) Phylogenetics and the Evolution of Venom in Fishes (with PI M.L.J. Stiassny), $11,970, 2004-2006
Non-NSF Extramural Funding:
The Negaunee Foundation, Evolution in the deep-sea: Using three-dimensional reconstructions to explore abyssal fishes - $32,000, 2011
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, Providing Long-Term Security and Access to Genetic Resources at Field Museum (with H. K. Voris), $120,999, 2009-2010.
Lerner-Gray Grant for Marine Research, American Museum of Natural History, $2,000, 2003
Honors and Awards:
Lerner-Gray Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History, 2005-2007
Distinction in Doctoral Research, Columbia University, 2005
Lerner-Gray Graduate Research Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History, 2002-2005
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation Graduate Faculty Fellowship, Columbia University, 1999-2004
Kalbfleisch Graduate Research Fellowship, American Museum of Natural History, 1999-2002
Graduate Research Fellowship, Villanova University, 1999
Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 1997
Editorial Experience and Outreach:
Editor-in-Chief, Copeia, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2018-
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, and Systematics, 2014-
Associate Editor, Systematic Biology, 2016-2018
Associate Editor, PLOS ONE, 2016-
Illustration and Figure Editor, Copeia, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2005-2018
Editorial Board, Systematic Biology, 2014-2016
Associate Editor, Copeia, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2009-2017
Founding member and presenter, What the Fish?, podcast series from The Field Museum, 2012–2013
Book Review Editor, Copeia, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, 2006-2009
Fieldwork:
Taiwan - midwater and deepwater marine surveys, 2014 (Chief Scientist)
San Diego Trough and coastal California - midwater and benthic marine surveys, 2010 (Chief Scientist)
Taiwan - midwater and deepwater marine surveys, 2009 (Chief Scientist)
New York - marine, estuarine, and freshwater surveys, 2000-2007
Madagascar - marine, estuarine, and freshwater surveys, 2003
Florida - marine surveys, 2001 (Chief Scientist)
California - marine and estuarine surveys, 1995-1998
Mexico, Baja Peninsula - marine and estuarine, and freshwater surveys, 1996-1997