David A. Grimaldi is an entomologist with research interests in the evolution of insects and insect sociality, insect pollination and its evolutionary history, fossilization in amber, and systematics of Drosophilidae and other Diptera.
He is Professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the same institution. He is also an adjunct professor at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York.