Toby Pennington joins the Department of Biology as the inaugural David and Dorothy Kemper Professor, a joint appointment with WashU and the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Previously a professor of tropical plant diversity and biogeography at the University of Exeter and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in the U.K., Pennington is a leading expert in the identification, classification, and conservation of plants in dry tropical regions, particularly in Central and South America. Pennington earned both his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford.
