Person
Raven, Robert R.
- Occupation
- Arachnologist and Museum curator
Summary
Robert Raven is one of Australia's foremost arachnologists. Having started by researching the behaviour and ecology of spiders in the Brisbane region, he moved on to the taxonomy of spiders. He has described over 450 new species in more than 40 genera from Australia, Southeast Asia, the Pacific islands, and Central and South America. Having joined the staff of the Queensland Museum in 1974 he became Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and Principal Curator. Raven has been Spider Bite Consultant for the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane for many years. He serves as Chairman of the World Spider Catalog Committee for the International Society of Arachnology and was founder of the Australasian Arachnological Society. In 2018 he was awarded the Queensland Museum Medal.
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Chronology
- 1974 - 1982
- Career position - Arachnologist, Queensland Museum
- 1981
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Queensland
- 1983 - 1984
- Award - CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship at American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A. and CSIRO, Canberra
- 1985 - 2021
- Career position - Curator, Queensland Museum
- 1991
- Career position - President, Entomological Society of Queensland
- 2000
- Career position - President, International Society for Arachnology
- 2018
- Award - Queensland Museum Medal
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Raven, Robert, 'Obituary: Graham Wishart (1937 - 2015)', Australasian arachnology, 86 (2015), 12-3. Details
Resources
- Australia's Spiderman wins 2018 Queensland Museum Medal [Robert Raven], Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 2018. http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/About+Us/Media+Centre/Media+Releases/2018/08/Australias+Spiderman+wins+2018+Queensland+Museum+Medal#.XD0WjdJlK70. Details
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Created: 12 March 2019, Last modified: 10 June 2022