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Our curators and staff are listed here by collections area. For general enquiries contact Rachel Russell, Departmental Administrator, on the number or email below.

Contact list of staff members

  • Natural Sciences department

    Telephone
    0131 247 4228
    Email
    r.russell@nms.ac.uk

Earth Systems

  • Dr Rachel Walcott

    Principal Curator of Earth Systems
  • Headshot of Emily Brown from the waist up, wearing business casual clothing and smiling. She is leaning on a railing overlooking National Museums Scotland’s Grand Gallery.
    she/her

    Emily Brown

    Assistant Curator of Earth Systems
  • A head and shoulders photo of a man with short dark hair and a brown moustache, wearing a brown Fair Isle knit sweater and black work lanyard. He is sitting in front of a petrographic microscope, and a computer screen showing a microscope image of a rock thin section made up of blue, orange, and pink crystals.

    Dr Bob Gooday

    Earth Systems Analyst

Invertebrates

  • Dr Vladimir Blagoderov

    Principal Curator of Invertebrates
  • Fiona Ware

    Curator of Invertebrate Biology
  • Sankurie Pye

    Curator of Invertebrate Biology
  • Ashleigh Whiffin, a white woman in her early 30s with dark blonde wavey hair. She is wearing a cream-coloured jumper and standing in front of railings in the grand gallery of the museum.
    she/her

    Ashleigh Whiffin

    Curator of Entomology
  • Angela Robb, a white cis woman in her early 40s, with short brown hair. Standing in front of railings in a light-filled museum atrium.
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    Angela Robb

    Assistant Curator of Fluid Collections

Palaeobiology

  • Dr Andrew Ross

    Principal Curator of Palaeobiology
  • Dr Stig Walsh

    Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeobiology
  • A head and shoulder portrait photo of a man with salt-and-pepper hair, wearing blue framed glasses and a marled blue fleece. He is standing in the field at the world-famous Fezouata fossil locality in Morocco, with in the background a blue sky and the hills of Jbel Rhart.

    Dr Yves Candela

    Curator of Invertebrate Palaeobiology
  • Dr Sarah Stewart

    Assistant Curator of Palaeobiology
  • Vicen Carrió, ACR

    Palaeobiology Conservator / Preparator
  • Dr Nick Fraser

    Keeper of Natural Sciences
  • she / her

    Dr Elsa Panciroli

    NERC Independent Research Fellow

Vertebrate Biology

  • Dr Andrew Kitchener

    Principal Curator of Vertebrate Biology
  • Dr Martin Stervander

    Senior Curator of Birds
  • Zena Timmons

    Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Biology
  • Georg Hantke

    Curatorial Preparator
  • Stephen Rodger

    Curatorial Preparator
  • Rebecca McManus

    Negaunee Curatorial Preparator

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