Edgar Lehr

Dr. Edgar Lehr is the Robert W. Harrington Endowed Professor of Biology at Illinois Wesleyan University, specializing in the biodiversity, taxonomy, and conservation of Neotropical amphibians and reptiles. His work focuses on cloud forests and high-Andean habitats in Peru and Suriname.

• Research Affiliate, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
• Research Associate, The Field Museum (Chicago)
• Research Associate, Museo de Historia Natural Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru)

His research integrates taxonomy, phylogenetics, biogeography, and conservation biology, with recent studies on species such as Pristimantis frogs and Tachymenoides snakes in the Pui Pui Protected Forest. He has contributed to understanding the amphibian extinction crisis and thermal physiology impacts on Andean species.

Dr. Lehr serves as Associate Editor for Salamandra (DGHT, Germany) and on the editorial boards of Life (MDPI), Phylogenetics and Paleobiology (Frontiers), and Taxonomy (MDPI). He has received prestigious awards including the Feodor Lynen Fellowship (2005-2006) and the Taylor & Francis Prize (2011).