Dr. Lorenzo Prendini is a Curator and Professor at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. He received a B.Sc. in Botany & Zoology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1994. He obtained a B.Sc. (Hons) and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1995 and 2001, respectively. His research keywords include Arachnida, systematics, phylogenetics, evolution, biogeography, morphology, genomics, and diversity.