És Investigador Associat al Museu Americà d'Història Natural a Nova York, membre de la Societat linneana de Londres, Professor Associat al Departament d'Ecologia i Biologia Evolutiva i Curador a la Divisió d'Entomologia del Museu d'Història Natural de la Universitat de Kansas.
Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz i Daniel J. Bennett són dos dels seus nombrosos estudiants de diverses parts del món.
Engel, MS 2001. A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bull. of the Am. Museum of Natural History 259 : 1-192
Engel, MS & Grimaldi, DA 2002. The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). Am. Museum Novitats 3362 : 1-20
Engel, MS & Grimaldi, DA 2004. New light shed on the oldest insect. Nature 427 : 627-630
Engel, MS, Davis, SR Prokop, J. 2013. Insect wings: The evolutionary developmental origins of Nature's first flyers . In: Minelli, A., Boxshall, G. & Fusco, G. (eds.), Arthropod Biology and Evolution: Molècules, Development, Morphology : 269–298. Springer, Berlín
Garrouste, R., Clément, G., Nel, P., Engel, MS, Grandcolas, P., D'Haese, C., Lagebro, L., Denayer, J., Gueriau, P., Lafaite, P., Olive, S., Prestianni, C. Nel, A. 2012. A complete insect from the Late Devonian period. Nature 488 : 82–85
Gu, J., Montealegre-Z, F., Robert, D., Engel, MS, Qiao, G. Ren, D. 2012. Wing stridulation in Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produeix low-pitched musical calls to attract femals. Proc. of the Nat. Acad. of Sci. 109 : 3868–3873
Huang, D., Engel, MS, Cai, C., Wu, H. Nel, A. 2012. Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of Xina. Nature 483 : 201–204
Huang, D., Nel, A., Cai, C., Lin, Q. Engel, MS 2013. Amphibious flies and paedomorphism in the Jurassic period. Nature 495 : 94–97
Krishna, K., Grimaldi, DA, Krishna, V. Engel, MS 2013. Treatise on the Termites of the World. Bull. of the Am. Museum of Natural History 377 : 1-2470
Michez, Sr., Vanderplanck, M. Engel, MS 2012. Fossil bees and their plant associates . In: Patiny, S. (ed.) Evolution of Plant-Pollinator Relationships : 103-164. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge
Nel, A., Roques, P., Nel, P., Prokin, AA, Bourgoin, T., Prokop, J., Szwedo, J., Atzar, D., Desutter-Grandcolas, L., Wappler, T., Garrouste, R., Coty, D., Huang, D., Engel, MS Kirejtshuk, AG 2013. The earliest known holometabolous insects. Nature 503 : 257–261
Pérez-de la Font, R., Delclòs, X., Peñalver, E., Speranza, M., Wierzchos, J., Ascaso, C. Engel, MS 2012. Early evolution and ecology of camouflage in insects. Proc. of the Nat. Acad. of Sci. 109 : 21414–21419