Director of the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience

Dr. Scott Angle, Provost

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Veronica Hinman, a distinguished professor of life sciences and the head of the department of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, has accepted the position of Director of the Whitney Laboratory, effective January 1, 2025.

Dr. Hinman, the Dr. Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences in the departments of Biological Sciences and Computational Biology, has headed Carnegie Mellon’s biology department since 2019 and served at the university since 2006.

She has been the director of the GERN Advanced course at the Marine Biology Lab since 2023 and this year won the A.O. Kovalevsky Medal from the St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists for extraordinary achievements in evolutionary developmental biology and comparative zoology.

Dr. Hinman earned her bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and zoology in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the University of Queensland in Australia, and her doctoral degree in zoology in 2000 from the university’s Department of Zoology and School for Marine Science. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, advised by Professor Eric Davidson, in 2006.

Dr. Hinman will succeed Dr. Mark Q. Martindale, who has served as Whitney’s director since 2012 and will remain there as a professor of biology following her arrival. Please join me in welcoming her to her new position.