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Michael S. Engel is an American paleontologist and entomologist. He has undertaken field work in Central Asia, Asia Minor, the Levant, Arabia, the high Arctic, and South and North America, and published more than 500 papers in scientific journals. He was trained at the University of Kansas where in 1993 he received a B.Sc. in Physiology & Cell Biology and a B.A. in Chemistry, and at Cornell University where in 1998 he obtained his Ph.D. in Entomology. In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work in insect paleontology. Dr. Engel is an authority on the geological history, phylogeny, and taxonomy of insects, and has made particular contributions to the systematics of living and fossil Zoraptera, Isoptera, Dermaptera, Raphidioptera, Neuroptera, and Hymenoptera, most notably the bees, including the honey bees. Some of Dr. Engel's research images have been included in exhibitions on the aesthetic value of scientific imagery.
Among his current positions are Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York; Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and Paleontological Society; and joint appointments as Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Courtesy Professor in the Department of Geology, and Curator-in-Charge in the Division of Entomology and Courtesy Curator in the Division of Invertebrate Paleontology of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas.
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