Robert Raven

Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist,^[1] being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensland Museum. Dr Raven has described over 450^[2] species of spider in Australia and elsewhere, and is spider bite consultant to the Royal Brisbane Hospital,^[3] leading to much work on spider toxins.^[4][5][6]

Robert Raven
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of Queensland[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Arachnology
Institutions	Queensland Museum