Alan Rockefeller

Alan Rockefeller (born c. 1980) is an American mycologist who specializes in fungi photography, microscopy, DNA barcoding, and taxonomy.

[1][2] National Geographic described Rockefeller as "one of the most well-known mycologists studying psilocybe species", citing his memorization of Latin names and his "near-encyclopedic knowledge of mushrooms on the west coast of the U.S."[3] Rockefeller, an expert in collection and classification of psilocybin and muscimol mushrooms,[4] has used phylogenetic and microscopic analysis to identify several species not previously described.

[6] Rockefeller's iNaturalist images are released under a Creative Commons license,[5] allowing their use as photo illustrations for news articles and sites like Wikipedia.

[8][9][10] Rockefeller worked professionally in information security[8] but "the son of two science teachers...started studying mushrooms in 2001 and has since traveled around the world to find and classify them.

[12] Since 2023, Rockefeller and Mandie Quark, in cooperation with the indigenous Sacha-Wasi people, have been working to catalog Ecuadorian fungi species.