Education
Menno Schilthuizen graduated from and received his Doctor of Philosophy at Leiden University.
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Career
He has published numerous articles about evolution and ecology and three popular science books In particular, his studies have concerned land snails and beetles. His newest book, on the evolution of genitalia, was published by Penguin in May, Translations have appeared in Dutch, German, and Italian.
From 1995 to 2000 he worked at Wageningen University.
From 2000 to 2006 he worked at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, where he studied land snail ecology and evolution in tropical forests, caves, and limestone habitats. In January 2007 he became deputy-director of research at Naturalis Museum, Leiden.
He stayed at this post for one and a half years, and then became permanent research scientist there. He now heads the character evolution research team
From 2007 to 2012, he was honorary professor of insect biodiversity at Groningen University.
He now holds a professorship in Character Evolution and Biodiversity at Leiden University.
