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Jack Ashby was born in London. He is the Assistant Director of the University of Cambridge's Museum of Zoology, and former Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology at University College London. After studying zoology at the University of Cambridge, he entered a career engaging people with the natural world through museums. Jack is regularly engaged in press interviews and news articles as a zoological and museological commentator. His zoological interests focus on the mammals of Australia (where and he regularly undertakes ecological fieldwork) and the history of our relationship with them. His book Platypus Matters won the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales' 2022 Whitley Award for best natural history book.
He is a trustee of the Natural Sciences Collections Association and formerly of the Society for the History of Natural History, and an Honorary Research fellow in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London.
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