Career
He is currently the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Director of the Dinosaur Institute. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, New York after immigrating from Argentina. He is world-renowned for his research on the origin and early evolution birds, the curator of the award winning Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, teacher and mentor, British Broadcasting Corporation advisor and prolific author of scientific and popular books
Chiappe is a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a laureate of the Alexander Humboldt Foundation, and a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing.