Birmingham, AM, Ph.D. Harvard) was from 2003 to 2012 a senior research fellow of the American Philosophical Society[1] and is, starting in 2012, the Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society[2] and is an emeritus professor of natural history at the University of Oxford.
[3] He was appointed director of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History in July 1998.
[4] In 1987 he was appointed president of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.
He had earlier been a dean at Yale University and director of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
[5] He is the author of several books and essays that deal with paleontology, the history of science and evolution.