CV

General Information

Full Name Robert C. Thomson
email thomsonr@hawaii.edu
phone 808.956.6476

Education

  • 2010
    PhD
    University of California, Davis
    • Population Biology
  • 2004
    BS with High Honors
    Rochester Institute of Technology
    • Biology

Experience

  • 2022 -
    Professor
    School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 2025 -
    Editor-in-Chief Elect
    Systematic Biology
  • 2020 -
    Chair
    Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Graduate Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 2022 -
    Research Associate in Herpetology
    Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • 2021 - 2023
    Associate Director for Research
    School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 2019
    Associate Chair for Curriculum (interim)
    Department of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 2017 - 2022
    Associate Professor
    Department of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 2012 - 2017
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
  • 2011
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, Davis

Honors and Awards

  • 2015
    • University of Hawaii Regent’s Medal For excellence in research
  • 2010
    • UC Davis Merton Love Award for outstanding dissertation in evolution and ecology
  • 2004
    • Rochester Institute of Technology Baldwin Award for outstanding undergraduate in the life sciences