Jessica Ware

Jessica Lee Ware is a Canadian-American evolutionary biologist and entomologist. She is curator and chair of the Division of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In addition, she is a principal investigator at the Institute for Comparative Genomics and a professor for the Richard Gilder Graduate School.

Ware has served as president of the Entomological Society of America, and as President of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association. She is current president of the Society of Systematic Biologists. She studies the evolution of insect physiology and behavior, particularly dragonflies and dictyoptera, as well as their biogeography (geographic distribution). Ware was a contributor to a major study of the phylogenomics of insect evolution, and developed molecular phylogeny of hexapoda. Ware warns of the dangerous losses occurring in insect taxonomies, which are being reported as high as 80%.