Menno Schilthuizen scientist and science reporter
Welcome to my homepage. I am a biologist working in the fields of evolutionary biology, systematics, and ecology, mostly studying tropical and mediterranean land snails, but I also work with parasitic wasps, scavenging beetles, birds, and the bacterial symbiont Wolbachia. More information on my favourite organisms is here. Currently, I am an associate professor at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, where I have set up a molecular genetics laboratory and a land snail collection, and run research projects on, among other things, speciation in endemic land snails from limestone outcrops. More on the lab, the collection and the research projects can be found elsewhere on this website. Also featured is a list of publications, many of which can be downloaded for your personal use. In addition to my scientific work, I have been active as a popular science writer since 1994. I write on ecology and evolution for Science, ScienceNOW, and Natural History, the Malaysian national newspaper The Star and for several Dutch newspapers and magazines, such as NRC Handelsblad, Bionieuws, de Volkskrant, and Intermediair.
Office address: Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Locked Bag 2073, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia tel. +60-88-320000 ext. 2335 fax. +60-88-320291 e-mail: (preferred) or