P. David Polly

P. David Polly is a Professor in and chair of the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University (IU) A vertebrate paleontologist, he studies the evolution of mammals and other vertebrates in the fossil record, including trait-based studies of community response to environmental change, geometric morphometric analysis of evolution and morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, and speciation on regional and continental geographic scales.

David is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recently served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2016-18), Director of the IU Center for Biological Research Collections (2013-2018), and Associate Director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at IU (2017-2018), and was an Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at the Yale University Institute of Biospheric Studies (2018-19).