Ingi Agnarsson is a Professor of Zoology at the University of Iceland. He got his B.S. at the University of Iceland and Ph.D. (2004) from George Washington University in Washington DC, during which time he also studied at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. After postdoctoral training at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the University of Akron, Ohio, he worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico (2008-2012), Assistant and then Associate Professor at the University of Vermont (2012-2021), before assuming the current position. Ingi is interested in Systematics, Phylogenetic theory and phylogenomics, Biodiversity, Evolution, Behavior, Arachnology, and spider silk biomechanics. He is a member of the Society of Systematic Biology, American Arachnological Society, International Society of Arachnology. Ingi has received the honor of a guest professorship at Hubei university, China, and a Top 10 New Species Award, International Institute for Species Exploration, Arizona State University.