Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology

Claudia Russo is Professor of Genetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She has a degree in Ecology and a PhD in Genetics. During her PhD, she worked with Masatoshi Nei at Pennsylvania State University as a visiting scholar. She is currently Head of the Genetics Graduate Program at UFRJ. In 2001, she was part of the team that founded the Graduate Program in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology at UFRJ and served as its Head for two terms. Seventeen alumni from her group hold permanent positions as faculty members in Brazil and abroad. Since 2012 she has been on the editorial board of the top journal in the field, Molecular Biology and Evolution, and has now been appointed as the journal's Editor in Chief, alongside Brandon Gaut, making her the first ever non-American to lead the journal. She was a section editor for the first edition of Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology.

Jason Wolf is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Bath, UK. He received a PhD from the University of Kentucky, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University and at Washington University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Tennessee and the University of Manchester, and a Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He is currently Editor in Chief for Evolution, and is a member of the Genetics Society Committee. He has previously served as Chief Editor for Frontiers in Genetic Architecture and as an Associate Editor for Genetics. He has edited two books and served as a section editor for the first edition of Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. He is a winner of the Dobzhansky Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution, a Young Investigator's Prize from the American Society of Naturalists and the Scientific Medal from the Zoological Society of London.