Lisa Lumley is the lead scientist of terrestrial invertebrates for the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) and an adjunct professor with the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. She obtained her BSc in Agriculture (1999) from the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics at the University of Alberta, and PhD (2010) from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta. Her PhD work focused on systematics and species delimitation of the spruce budworm species complex. She also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Canadian Forest Service and Université Laval working on forest pest lepidopteran genomics. In 2013 she began working at the Royal Alberta Museum, and in 2021 moved to the University of Alberta, where her team supports terrestrial invertebrate monitoring for the ABMI including oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida). She is an active member of the Acarological Society of America, Entomological Society of Canada, and Entomological Society of Alberta.