team

Principal Investigator

Brian J. Enquist

Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute.

Google Scholar · GitHub · benquist@arizona.edu

"If you want to build a ship, do not drum up people to collect wood and assign tasks, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Sandra Duran
• Julia Chacon-Labella
• Cesar Hinojo Hinojo
• Teresa Bohner
• Erica Newman (BBCS Postdoc)
• Robbie Burger (BBCS Postdoc)
• Xiao Feng (BBCS Postdoc)

Graduate Students

• Adam Chmurzynski (PhD)
• Brian Maitner (PhD)
• Lorah Patterson (PhD)
• Michiel Pillet (PhD)
• Matiss Castorena Salaks (PhD)
• Jocelyn Navarro (PhD)
• Lindsay Backhaus (MS)

Visiting Graduate Students

• Johanna Andrea Martinez Villa (Université du Québec à Montréal)
• Ragnhild Gya (Norway)
• Mia Vedel Sorensen (Norway)
• Jehova Lourenco Junior (Brazil)
• Yaoqi Li (Peking University)
• Jiaxin Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Lab Team and Technical Staff

• Christine Schirmer (Lab Manager)
• Brad Boyle
• Jeanine McGann
• Anjeanette Mckay
• Daniele Guaderrama
• Nathan Castler
• Amanda Henderson

Undergraduate Researchers

• Connor Wilson
• Cecina Babich Morrow
• Elisabeth Bergman (University of Arizona, honors project)
• Kenji Hayashi (Brown University, honors project)

Extended Lab Network

Visitors, sabbatarians, and collaborators have included Alberto Burquez, Bente Graae, Deborah Goldberg, Jens-Christian Svenning, Yadvinder Malhi, Cory Merow, Henry Horn, Angelina Martinez-Yrizar, Ruben Milla, Choy Huang, Van Savage, Richard Strimbeck, and Vigdis Vandvik.

Individual team member photos can be added to assets/img/team/ — just drop headshots there and let us know to update the grid.

Alumni

Former postdocs include Noah Charney and Margaret Evans, along with many additional alumni now in academia, government, and non-profit science.