About me
Dr. Andrew Miller is a mycologist and serves as the Director of the Herbarium at the Illinois Natural History Survey at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A native of Illinois, Andy began his formal education in mycology (the study of fungi) under the tutelage of Dr. Andrew Methven at Eastern Illinois University and completed his doctoral degree at The Field Museum in Chicago, IL. Andrew has traveled extensively throughout the world collecting and describing fungi, documenting their biodiversity, and studying their evolutionary relationships. An expert on both large macrofungi and small microfungi, he has described over 100 species of fungi new to science. Andrew has published over 180 scientific and popular papers on fungi and has given numerous lectures and workshops to a variety of organizations on the diversity and importance of fungi.
