Elizabeth Jockusch

Elizabeth L. Jockusch is an American evolutionary biologist who studies plethodontidae salamanders and other organisms. While working with David Wake and others, she has identified multiple new species of ''Batrachoseps'' salamanders. She is the head of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at the University of Connecticut, which she joined in 1999. She is also the director of the Jockusch Lab.

In 2014, she was elected to the council of the Society of Systematic Biologists for a three-year term. Provided by Wikipedia