| Justin L. Lee | herpetology, evolutionary biology, taxonomy, ecology | Department of Vertebrate Zoology Department of Vertebrate Zoology | 2014 | | George Robert Zug (research scientist), Daniel G Mulcahy (research scientist) |
| Wolfgang P. Dittus | primate behavior, conservation | | | | |
| Loren Cassin Sackett | evolutionary adaptation to pathogens, rapid evolution | | 2013 | 2016 | Robert C. Fleischer (post-doc) |
| Leann M. Biancani | | Invertebrate Zoology | 2015 | | Karen J. Osborn (grad student) |
| William North Rice | | Secretary and Curator | | | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| Clinton Hart Merriam | zoology, mammalogy | | 1871 | | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| Ray C. Schmidt | phylogenetics, biodiversity, and species discovery | | | | |
| Mathew Kweskin | | Entomology | 2000 | 2003 | Ulrich G. Mueller (grad student) |
| Natasha Mehdiabadi | | | 1999 | 2002 | Ulrich G. Mueller (grad student) |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird | | | | | |
| Robert Kennicott | herpetology | | 1853 | | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| Carla Jean Dove | | | | | |
| George Robert Zug | Herpetology | | | | |
| Thomas E. Bowman | Crustacea, taxonomy | | | | |
| Jorge Alberto Santiago-Blay | | | | | |
| Aryeh H. Miller | Evolutionary biology, herpetology | Vertebrate Zoology (Division of Amphibians and Reptiles) | 2015 | | George Robert Zug (research assistant) |
| Carole Baldwin | | | | | |
| Andy Simpson | | | | | Charles B. Fenster (grad student) |
| Adela Roa-Varon | Evolution, Systematics, Marine Fishes, Seascape Genomics, Conservation | NMNH- Vertebrate Zoology NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology | 2021 | | Carole Baldwin (collaborator), Andrea M. Quattrini (post-doc) |
| Melinda Peters | | | | | Qiuyu (Jenny) Xiang (grad student) |
| Robert B. Faden | | | | | |
| Fenner Albert Chace, Jr. | | | | | |
| James C. Tyler | | | | | |
| James Chase Tyler | | | | | |
| Peter J. Wagner | Computational Paleobiology; Phylogenetics; Paleozoic Gastropods | | | | Douglas H. Erwin (post-doc) |
| Katherine Ralls | conservation biology | | | | |
| Lauren E. Helgen | Entomology, Mammalogy | | 2006 | | Robert C. Fleischer (research assistant) |
| Frederick William True | | | | | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| Frank E. Anderson | | | | | David Swofford (post-doc) |
| Peter G. Foster | | | | | David Swofford (post-doc) |
| John P. Huelsenbeck | phylogenetics | | | | David Swofford (post-doc) |
| Paul O. Lewis | Phylogenetics | | | | David Swofford (post-doc) |
| John M. Sullivan | | | | | David Swofford (post-doc) |
| George Brown Goode | | | 1872 | 1887 | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| James F. Parham | Vertebrate Paleontology, Herpetology | | | | George Robert Zug (research assistant) |
| Storrs L. Olson | avian paleontology | | | | |
| Robert C. Fleischer | | | | | |
| S. Kathleen Lyons | | | | | |
| Gary A. Krupnick | Plant Conservation | | | | |
| Don E. Wilson | Mammalogy | | | | |
| Kristofer Helgen | | | | | |
| Jesus Maldonado | | | | | |
| Gene Hunt | Paleobiology | | | | |
| Conrad C. Labandeira | Paleobiology, Insects | | | | |
| John F. Eisenberg | | | | | |
| Edward Drinker Cope | Vertebrate paleontology, evolution | | 1861 | 1861 | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| Charles Johnson Maynard | | | | 1870 | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant) |
| Robert Ridgway | | | 1874 | 1880 | Spencer Fullerton Baird (research assistant), George Brown Goode (research assistant) |
| John Treadwell Nichols | | | | 1908 | Frederick William True (research assistant) |
| Alwyn Williams | | | 1948 | 1950 | G. Arthur Cooper (post-doc) |
| Frederick (Ted) Merkle Bayer | | Division of Marine Invertebrates | | 1950 | Fenner Albert Chace, Jr. (research assistant) |
| Clovis Barreira e Castro | | | 1981 | 1986 | Frederick (Ted) Merkle Bayer (grad student) |
| Pietra Sierwald | | | | 1986 | Jonathan Coddington (post-doc) |
| Song Daxiang | | | | 1986 | Jonathan Coddington (post-doc) |
| Charles E. Griswold | | | | 1989 | Jonathan Coddington (post-doc) |
| Gregory C. Mayer | evolution, biogeography, islands, reptiles | National Museum of Natural History | 1989 | 1990 | George Robert Zug (post-doc) |
| Jun Wen | | | 1991 | 1991 | Robert K Jansen (post-doc) |
| Rosemary G. Gillespie | Evolutionary ecology biodiversity islands spiders | | | 1993 | Jonathan Coddington (research scientist) |
| Nikolaj Scharff | | | | 1994 | Jonathan Coddington (post-doc) |
| Michael D. Sorenson | avian evolutionary biology | | 1993 | 1995 | Robert C. Fleischer (post-doc) |
| Robert S. Hoffmann | mammalian ecology, systematics | | | | |
| Jeremy A. Miller | | | | | |
| Jason Munshi-South | urban ecology, evolutionary biology, population genomics | | | | |
| Emily K. Latch | molecular ecology, wildlife genetics, landscape genetics | | 2007 | 2008 | Robert C. Fleischer (post-doc) |
| Andrew N. Iwaniuk | evolutionary neurobiology | | 2007 | 2008 | Storrs L. Olson (post-doc) |
| Kristin Hultgren | evolutionary ecology, decorator crabs, synalphid shrimp, marine symbioses | | 2007 | 2010 | J Emmett Duffy (post-doc), Nancy Knowlton (post-doc) |
| Kenneth A Hayes | Systematics, Evolution, Ecology, Conservation | Invertebrate Zoology - Malacology | 2009 | 2010 | Ellen E. Strong (post-doc) |
| Moriaki Yasuhara | Paleobiology | Paleobiology | 2007 | 2010 | Gene Hunt (post-doc) |
| Heather RL Lerner | avian phylogenetics, MHC | | 2007 | 2011 | Robert C. Fleischer (post-doc) |
| Cynthia Sims Parr | behavioral ecology, systematics, biodiversity informatics, data policy | | | | |
| Anna E. Savage | evolution, disease ecology, herpetology | | 2012 | 2014 | Robert C. Fleischer (post-doc) |
| Eliécer E. Gutiérrez | Biogeography, systematics, niche modeling, phylogenetics, mammalogy | | 2012 | 2015 | Kristofer Helgen (post-doc), Jesus Maldonado (post-doc) |
| Dahiana Arcila | Molecular Phylogenetics, Ichthyology, Genomics | Vertebrate Zoology Vertebrate Zoology | 2015 | 2017 | Richard P Vari (grad student), James C. Tyler (grad student) |
| Lorian Cobra Straker | Ornithology, morphology, feather | Division of Birds | 2014 | 2016 | Carla Jean Dove (post-doc) |
| Jonathan Coddington | | | | | |
| Advait Mahesh Jukar | Vertebrate Paleontology, Macroecology, Mammalogy, Herpetology, Evolution | | | | |