Justin Gerlach is a College Lecturer at Peterhouse, Cambridge and an affiliated researcher at the University Museum of Zoology.

He was born in the Seychelles and growing up there he became passionate about nature and conservation. He completed his PhD in Zoology at the University of Oxford before joining the research team at the University of Cambridge and his research interests cover all aspects of tropical island ecology, evolution and conservation.

Species of particular interest include the Seychelles giant tortoises, sheath-tailed bat, sooglossids frogs, caecilians and the tiger chameleon.