CURRENT PHD FELLOWS
IGC FELLOWS | Global Change Center
Ph.D. Fellows have joined our program from 12 countries and dozens of disciplines, and are currently solving problems on every continent.
Meet our current Fellows below!
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General ItemMona Abadian
Ph.D. Student | Sustainable Biomaterials | Circular Economy, sustainable transformation strategies, socio-economic systems
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General ItemMary Opeyemi Adebote
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Fisheries conservation and management, the impact of climate change on aquatic ecosystems
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General ItemPrashasti Agarwal
Ph.D. Candidate | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Agroecology, sustainable agriculture, plant-microbe-soil interactions
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General ItemMeghan Albritton
Ph.D. Student | Geography | Human and environmental health impacts of extractivism, health geography, global health, participatory mapping
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General ItemCamilo Alfonso
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Behavioral endocrinology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology, ornithology
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General ItemAtif Ali
Ph.D. Student | Sustainable Biomaterials | Circular economy, sustainable consumption & production, climate change, sustainable energy systems
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General ItemNicholas Bone
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Trait adaptation, phylogenetic comparative methods, and macroevolutionary dynamics
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General ItemGabriel Borba
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | The impacts of climate change, habitat loss and overfishing
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General ItemReilly Brennan
Ph.D. Student | Entomology | Landscape ecology, disease ecology
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General ItemThomas Bustamante
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Freshwater ecology, life history, animal behavior, response to anthropogenic habitat change
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General ItemMariana Castaneda-Guzman
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Data analytics, remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, climate change, biodiversity conservation
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General ItemJordan Coscia
Ph.D. Candidate | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Grassland ecology, community ecology, ecological restoration, botany
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General ItemPriscila dos Reis Cunha
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Socio-ecological systems, natural resource use, indigenous and traditional communities, biodiversity conservation
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General ItemAmanda Darling
Ph.D. Student | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Improving access to safe drinking water & sanitation for low resource settings, the intersection of environmental engineering & public health, rural drinking water systems
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General ItemOluwaseyi Dasho
Ph.D. Student | Geosciences | Coastal land subsidence; implication for infrastructure and relative sea level rise
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General ItemStephanie Duston
Ph.D. Student | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Soil biogeochemistry; soil organic matter and microbe dynamics; distribution and partitioning of soil organic matter through plant and microbial function
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General ItemTaylor Fossett
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Behavioral ecology, behavioral neurobiology, neuroendocrinology, ecophysiology
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General ItemCaetano Franco
Ph.D. Student | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Co-management and community-based management of natural resources; use of common resources; local populations; protected areas
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General ItemMegan Gaesser
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Aquatic toxicology, biogeochemistry; ecosystem, restoration, and urban ecology; emerging contaminants of concern in freshwater systems
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General ItemAmir M. Gazar
Ph.D. Student | Biomedical and Veterinary Sciences | Public Health, Environmental Health and Policy Making, Decarbonization, Renewable Energy Systems, Artificial Intelligence
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General ItemLuke Goodman
Ph.D. Student | Planning, Governance, and Globalization | Policy innovations, responses, and processes for global challenges, including antimicrobial resistance and the renewable energy transition
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General ItemMegan Harris
Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Systems of systems modeling, hydrology, software framework, uncertainty, system dynamics, interdependencies
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General ItemAmanda Hensley
Ph.D. Student | Translational Biology, Medicine, & Health | Public health implementation science, immunology & infectious disease, health equity for diverse, under-engaged, & rural populations
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General ItemKatie Hoffman
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Freshwater ecology, phytoplankton, science communication
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General ItemKathleen Hohweiler
Ph.D. Student | Biological Systems Engineering | Drinking water quality, contaminants of emerging concern, private drinking water systems, public health
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General ItemDexter Howard
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Limnology, aquatic biogeochemistry, organic carbon cycling, drinking water quality
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General ItemBailey Howell
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Urban evolution, phylogenetic comparative methods, macroevolution, trait adaptation
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General ItemEmma Hultin
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Freshwater ecosystems, population dynamics modeling
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General ItemTori Hymel
Ph.D. Student | Urban Affairs and Planning | Human-wildlife conflict; conservation social science, anti-poaching; cross-cultural research
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General ItemShariful Islam
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Infectious disease at the wildlife-human interface
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General ItemAbir Jain
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Species interactions, seed dispersal, global change ecology, restoration, conservation, science communication
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General ItemSarah Juster
Ph.D. Candidate | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Agroforestry in refugee settings, social dimensions of tree-based interventions, participatory mapping
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General ItemMacy J. Kailing
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Infectious disease ecology, host-pathogen coevolution, wildlife and ecosystem health, heterogeneity in host susceptibility
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General ItemCarla López Lloreda
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Watershed biogeochemistry, greenhouse gasses, carbon cycling, disturbance impacts
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General ItemPika M.
Ph.D. Student | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Restoration ecology, fire ecology, endangered species management
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General ItemJay Margolis
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Evolutionary biology, behavior and coloration in birds, the evolution of sexual dimorphism and social signaling
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General ItemZach Martin
Ph.D. Candidate | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Stream habitat management, landscape ecology, reproductive biology of fishes, watershed modeling, spatial modeling
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General ItemEmily Matthews
Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Public health, Environmental health & policy making, environmental modeling, long-range impacts of environmental hazards & interventions
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General ItemKatie Mayer
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Aquatic toxicology, immunology, and ecology; effects of emerging contaminants of concern on freshwater ecosystems
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General ItemCasey McLaughlin
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Ecotoxicology, ecophysiology, neuroendocrinology, ornithology
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General ItemZoie McMillian
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Conservation social science, illegal wildlife trade, herpetology, conservation biology
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General ItemNoah McNeill
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Ornithology, animal behavior, ecology, conservation biology, anthropogenic land use
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General ItemElaine Metz
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Population ecology, landscape ecology, ornithology, conservation
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General ItemMegan Moran
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Wildlife conservation and management, spatial ecology, population genetics
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General ItemLeah Novak
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Impacts of habitat loss and climate change on avian species; the application of science to conservation, management, and public policy
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General ItemIdowu Kayode Okeshola
Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, sensors for environmental contaminants, climate change, contaminated sites
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General ItemGrace O’Malley
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Bioacoustic monitoring, effects of climate change on freshwater organisms, applied conservation science
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General ItemBenedicta Ada Ottairoegbu
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Plant adaptation to rapid environmental changes.
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General ItemAnu Rai
Ph.D. Student | Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation | Community-based conservation focusing on underrepresented groups, sustainable conservation, human-nature/wildlife interaction, participatory approaches
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General ItemReyhane Rastgoo
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Quantitative and Qualitative Social Research, Conservation Social Science, Human-wildlife interactions, Human Dimensions of Wildlife
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General ItemBridget Re
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Conservation biology, impact of habitat loss and climate change on endangered species, ornithology
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General ItemSara Teemer Richards
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Disease ecology, behavioral ecology, and microbiology
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General ItemBecki Riddle
Ph.D. Student | Planning, Governance & Globalization | Water security, water policy and management, public education and engagement, science communication
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General ItemGabrielle Ripa
Ph.D. Student | Plant and Environmental Sciences | Wildlife habitat and management, anthropogenic impacts on native communities
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General ItemSergio Sabat-Bonilla
Ph.D. Student | Entomology | Aquatic macroinvertebrates responses to anthropogenic & environmental stressors, functional traits as predictors of environmental change
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General ItemNitheshnirmal Sadhasivam
Ph.D. Student | Geosciences | Groundwater resource monitoring using radar remote sensing, poromechanical modelling of groundwater, satellite gravimetry, subsidence monitoring, geohazards, groundwater level prediction.
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General ItemCarly Sear
Ph.D. Student | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Drinking water quality, the intersection of environmental & public health, environmental justice, adapting to & mitigating challenges from climate change
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General ItemBrendan Shea
Ph.D. Student | Fish and Wildlife Conservation | Marine ecology; predator-prey dynamics; ecological role of sharks and the ecosystem consequences of their removal
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General ItemSamuel Silknetter
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Stream ecology and biodiversity, landscape genetics, traits-based approaches, species interactions
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General ItemMeredith Snyder
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Microbial ecology, soil biogeochemistry, ecosystem science, pyrogenic carbon
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General ItemEliza Tarimo
Ph.D. Student | Biological Sciences | Macroevolution, physiological evolution, evolution of thermal adaptations
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General ItemHeather Wander
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Limnology, plankton dynamics, food web interactions, climate change, water quality
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General ItemAmber Wendler
Ph.D. Candidate | Biological Sciences | Behavioral ecology, conservation biology, and ornithology