Elizabeth Jockusch

Elizabeth L. Jockusch is an American evolutionary biologist who studies plethodontidae salamanders and other organisms. While working with David Wake and others, she has identified multiple new species of Batrachoseps salamanders. She works as a professor and lab director of the Jockusch Lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut.

Elizabeth Jockusch
Alma mater
  • Oberlin College
  • University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary biology
InstitutionsUniversity of Connecticut
Academic advisorsDavid Wake

In 2014, she was elected to the council of the Society of Systematic Biologists for a three-year term.

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