Wayne Maddison
Wayne Paul Maddison | |
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| Born | 1958 (age 66–67) London, Ontario, Canada |
| Education | University of Toronto Harvard University |
| Awards | NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1988–1990), David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (1993–1998), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2011) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Systematics, phylogenetics, arachnology, ecology |
| Institutions | University of Arizona University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | A revision of jumping spider species groups formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus, with a discussion of salticid phylogeny (Araneae) (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Herbert W. Levi |
Wayne Paul Maddison FRSC (born 1958) is a Canadian evolutionary biologist, arachnologist, and biological illustrator. He is Canada Research Chair in Biodiversity and a professor at the departments of zoology and botany at the University of British Columbia, and the Director of the Spencer Entomological Collection at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.