Danniella Sherwood is a research taxonomist specialising in the systematics of spiders. Most of her research focuses on the infraorder Mygalomorphae but she also has research interests in the taxonomy and systematics of spiders from the Mid Atlantic islands, historical nomenclature of spiders more broadly, and in museum specimen curation, digitisation, preservation and restoration. Danniella is Voluntary Assistant Curator of Arachnida at the Natural History Museum, London, a Research Associate of the Arachnology Research Association, United Kingdom Coordinator for the World Spider Catalog, a Member of the IUCN SSC Mid Atlantic Island Invertebrate Specialist Group and Foreign Associate of the Fundación Ariguanabo. She became a Trustee and Ordinary Council Member of the British Arachnological Society in June 2021 and Editor of the Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society in January 2022.