Christopher Witt

• Professor in the Department of Biology and Curator of Birds at the Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) of the University of New Mexico.
• Areas of research interest include avian systematics and molecular evolution; evolutionary inference using phylogenetic comparative methods; hummingbird evolution and comparative physiology; high altitude adaptation; and integrative ornithology.
• Witt uses museum specimens to study biogeography and evolution of birds, with a geographic focus on the Andes and the southwestern USA.
• His research approaches include comparative genomics, physiology, phylogenetics and parasitology.
• Witt has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles.
• Witt received his Ph.D. in 2004 from Louisiana State University and conducted his postdoctoral work at UC-Berkeley (2005-2006), before starting at UNM in 2007.

Additional areas of interest
Evolution, evolutionary biology, ornithology, birds