Honorary Academic (School of Biological Sciences), University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Daniel Thomas earned a doctorate in geology and zoology from the University of Otago in 2009, where his research focused on penguin evolution. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cape Town and a position the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where he studied fossils and the origins of feather color. Thomas later served as a zoology lecturer at Massey University in Auckland and is now an honorary academic in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland.
