John Taylor (47) (1941–)

[from Conchology website]
John Taylor, Ph.D. The Natural History Museum, London. Dr. John Taylor studies the systematics, phylogeny, and ecology of marine mollusks, with a recent focus on chemosymbiotic bivalves and their evolution. He obtained his B.Sc. (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) at King's College, University of London. He has been a research scientist at The Natural History Museum, London, since 1965 and has extensive field experience on Indo-West Pacific coral reefs, including sampling mollusks at many sites around Australia, such as Moreton Bay. Dr. Taylor was twice President of the Malacological Society of London, Editor of the Journal of Molluscan Studies for 17 years and Visiting Professor at Queen Mary College, University of London. He has an extensive publication record of research papers concerning bivalve shell microstructure, evolution and ecology of neogastropods, and systematics and phylogeny of marine bivalves. His role in BivAToL is the analysis and coding of shell microstructure characters, and he will also contribute to morphological data analysis of heterodont bivalves.