Current Postdocs
Sahale Casebolt
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: scasebolt@flmnh.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Zuania Colón-Piñeiro
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn, Ana V Longo & Hannah Vander Zanden
Contact: colonpineiro.z@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 258
Andrew Crowl
Herbarium and Informatics
Advisor: Nico Cellinese
Contact: andy.crowl@ufl.edu
Ivone de Bem Oliveira
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Jaret Daniels
Contact: idebem.oliveira@ufl.edu
Office: McGuire Center
Zoë Dennehy-Carr
Molecular Systematics and Informatics
Advisor: Doug Soltis, Pam Soltis & Robert Guralnick
Contact: zdennehycarr@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Bert Foquet
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Contact: bfoquet@ufl.edu
Office: McGuire Center
Sonali Garg
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: sonaligarg@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 286
Caleb Gordon
AI in Vertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Jon Bloch & Arthur Porto
Contact: calebgordon@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 228
Heru Handika
AI Biodiversity Informatics
Advisor: Arthur Porto
Contact: hhandika@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 228
Niyomi House
Digital Imaging
Advisor: Ed Stanley
Contact: nwijewardena@ufl.edu
Han Jiahong
Herbarium and Informatics
Advisor: Nico Cellinese
Contact: jiahonghan@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Kevin Karbstein
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisor: Pam Soltis
Contact: k.karbstein@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Molecular Lab Room
Tal Kinser
Biodiversity Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Contact: tkinser@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Moritz Lurig
AI Biodiversity
Advisor: Arthur Porto
Contact: mlurig@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 228
Makenzie Mabry
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisors: Doug Soltis & Pam Soltis
Contact: kenziemabry@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 301B
Nich Martin
Informatics
Advisors: Nicolas Gauthier
Contact: n.martin@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 353
Luciana Martins
Invertebrate Zoology
Advisor: Gustav Paulay
Contact: martinsrluciana@gmail.com
Helen Bond Plylar
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn & Gareth Fraser
Contact: h.plylar@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 286
Monique Romeiro-Brito
Herbarium
Advisor: Lucas Majure
Contact: mromeirobrito@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
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Shengchen Shan
Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisors: Doug Soltis & Pam Soltis
Contact: 352-293-1976 | shan158538@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 357
Interests: Polyploidy; genome editing
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Jonathan Spoelhof
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisors: Doug Soltis & Pam Soltis
Contact: spoelhof.jon@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 357
Lab Group
John True
Digital Imaging
Advisor: Ed Stanley
Contact: jtrue15@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall
Maria Camila Vallejo-Pareja
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: maria.vallejo@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 258
Katherine Wolcott
AI Biodiversity Informatics
Advisor: Arthur Porto
Contact: K.wolcott@ufl.edu
Office: Dickinson Hall, Room 228
Former Post-docs
Julie Allen
Bioinformatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Current Position: Associate Professor at Virginia Tech
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Arthur Anker
Invertebrate Zoology
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Marina S. Ascunce
Mammalogy
Advisor: David Reed
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Narayani Barve
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Vijay Barve
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Interests: Biodiversity informatics; citizen science; Lepidoptera
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Jennifer Bauer
Vertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Bruce MacFadden
Interests: Macroevolutionary trends in the Paleozoic with a focus on extinct echinoderms
Current Position: Research Museum Collection Manager for the invertebrate paleontology collection, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
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Darcy Bird
Informatics
Advisor: Nick Gauthier
Contact: darcy.bird@ufl.edu
Current Position: Environmental Professional at Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Jesse Breinholt
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Current Position: Bioinformatician at LGC
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Ana Paula Carvalho
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
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Patrick Ciccotto
Ichthyology
Advisor: Larry Page
Contact: p.ciccotto@gmail.com
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Biology and Chair of the Conservation Biology Program at Warren Wilson College
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Stephanie Clark
Invertebrate Paleontology
Natalie Claunch
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick & Ana Longo
Current Position: Wildlife Biologist at USDA APHIS WS National Wildlife Research Center Florida Field Station
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Nicolas Delsol
Anthropology
Advisor: Charlie Cobb & Rob Guralnick
Contact: nicolas.delsol.1@ulaval.ca
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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Troy Dexter
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: grcsansal@gmail.com
Current Position: Director of Gerace Research Centre, College of the Bahamas, San Salvador, Bahamas
Emily Ellis
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
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Aaron Ellrich
Anthropology
Advisor: Charlie Cobb
Contact: aellrich@coastalgeorgiahistory.org
Current Position: Archaeologist for the Coastal Georgia Historical Society
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Marianne Espeland
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Keith Willmott
Contact: marianne.espeland@gmail.com
Current Position: Curator of Lepidoptera at the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig
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Ryan Folk
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Interests: Ecological niche modeling, phylogenomics, molecular detection of hybridization, collections-based research, systematics and taxonomy
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University
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Nicolas Garcia Berguecio
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisor: Soltis
Contact: nicogarciab@gmail.com
Current Position: Associate Professor and Curator of the EIF Herbarium at Universidad de Chile
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Charlotte Germain-Aubrey
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisor: Soltis
Current Position:Project Management Officer UN Biodiversity- Secretariat for the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Zak Gezon
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Advisor: Jaret Daniels
Contact: zak.gezon@disney.com
Current Position: Conservation Program Manager – Butterflies and Pollinators; Disney’s Animal Kingdom
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Grant Godden
Herbarium
Advisor: Nico Cellinese
Contact: g0ddengr@ufl.edu
Current Position: At FLMNH as TEAMS; At Research Computing
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Keating Godfrey
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Contact: rkeatinggodfrey@gmail.com
Current Position: Research Scientist, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth, USA
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Lauren Gonzales
Vertebrate Paleontology & Herpetology
Advisor: Jonathan Bloch & David Blackburn
Contact: Lauren.Gonzales@unthealth.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Physiology & Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of North Texas
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Jaimi Gray
Herpetology
Advisor: Ed Stanley & David Blackburn
Contact: jaimigray@utexas.edu
Current Position: Research Scientist Associate, University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography (UTCT) Facility, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Tobias B. Grun
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: grun@tbgrun.com
Current Position: Scientific Staff at the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Fundamentals of Environmental Conservation and Data Management
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Chris Hamilton
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Current Position: Associate Professor at the University of Idaho
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Maggie Hantak
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: maggiehantak@gmail.com
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA
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Austin Hendy
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: ahendy@nhm.org
Current Position: Assistant Curator, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, USA
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Peter Hosner
Ornithology
Contact: idioptilon@gmail.com
Current Position: Associate Professor and Curator of Birds at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Nathan Jud
Vertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Jonathan Bloch
Years Active: 2014-2016
Contact: judn@william.jewel.edu
Current Position: Associate Professor of Biology, William Jewel College
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Chase B. Kimmel
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Jaret Daniels
Contact: cbkimmel@ufl.edu
Current Position: Scientist at the Daniels Lab at the FLMNH
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Adiel Klompmaker
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: aklompma@berkeley.edu
Current Position: Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Department of Museum Research & Collections, University of Alabama, USA
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Ronny Leder
Ichthyology
Advisor: Bruce MacFadden
Contact: leder.ronnymaik@gmail.com
Current Position: General Director of the Natural History Museum, Leipzig, Germany
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Michelle LeFebvre
Caribbean and Environmental Archaeology
Advisor: William Keegan and Kitty Emery
Contact: mlefebvre@flmnh.ufl.edu
Current Position: Assistant Curator of Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History
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Daijiang Li
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Contact: dli55ATwisc.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Jessica E. Light
Mammalogy
Advisor: David Reed
Contact: jessica.light@ag.tamu.edu
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University
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Yunpeng Liu
Molecular Systematics
Advisor: Pam and Doug Soltis
Contact: yunpeng.liu@ufl.edu
Current Position: Postdoc at UF’s Invasion Science Research Institute
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Paul Masonick
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Stephan Mayor
Informatics
smayor@flmnh.ufl.edu
Paulette McFadden
Florida Archaeology
Advisor: Neill Wallis
Contact: pmcfadden@ufl.edu
Current Position: Senior Archaeologist, Bureau of Archaeological Research, Public Lands Archaeology
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Bryan McLean
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Contact: b_mclean@uncg.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Curator of Biodiversity Collections at UNC-Greensboro
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Francois Michonneau
Invertebrate Zoology
Advisor: Gustav Paulay
Contact: francois.michonneau@gmail.com
Current Position: Senior Solutions Engineer at Posit PBC
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Luis Felipe Opazo Mella
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: felipe.opazomella@gmail.com
Current Position: Associate Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile
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Rafał Nawrot
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Interests: Biodiversity and macroecology of Cenozoic marine mollusks, conservation paleobiology
Contact: rafal.nawrot@univie.ac.at
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Austria
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Stuart Nielsen
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: stuart.nielsen@lsus.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Museum of Life Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
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Jessica Oswald
Paleontology, Phylogenetics, Ornithology
Advisor: David Steadman, Rob Guralnick, David Blackburn
Interests: Historical diversity and distributions
Contact: oswaldj3@gmail.com
Current Position: Senior Forensic Scientist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory, Ashland, Oregon
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Hannah Owens
Informatics
Advisors: Rob Guralnick and Akito Kawahara
Interests: Biodiversity; species distribution modeling; biogeography; geographical ecology; comparative phylogenetics
Contact: hannah.owens@gmail.com
Current Position: Assistant Professor; Center for Global Mountain Biodiversity and Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Section for Biodiversity; Globe Institute; University of Copenhagen
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Stella Palii
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisor: Soltis
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Dan Paluh
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: daniel.j.paluh@gmail.com
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, USA
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Shashank Pathour
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Current Position: Professor, Indian Agricultural Research Institute
Elizabeth Petsios
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: Elizabeth_Petsios@baylor.edu
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Baylor University
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Dana Reuter
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Contact: dreuter@uoregon.edu
Current Position: Biology Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Science Foundation
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Cristina Robins
Vertebrate Paleontology – PCP PIRE
Advisor: Bruce MacFadden
Years Active: 2014-2016
Contact: crobins@ua.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor at The University of Alabama
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Patricio Salazar
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Advisor: Keith Willmott
Vaughn Shirey
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Contact: vaughnshirey@floridamuseum.ufl.edu
Current Position: Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Natural History Museum
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Yash Sondhi
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Contact: yashsondhi@case.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
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Michael Storozum
Informatics
Advisor: Nick Gauthier
Brian Stucky
Informatics
Advisor: Rob Guralnick
Contact: stucky.brian@gmail.com
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Miao Sun
Molecular Systemics and Evolutionary Genetics
Advisor: Soltis
Interests: Tree of life, phylogenetic analysis, taxonomy, bioinformatics, evolution, historical biogeography
Contact: miaosun@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Current Position: Professor at Huazhong Agricultural University
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Marcel Talla Kouete
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: marcel.tallakouete@umontana.edu
Current Position: Postdoc Fellow at the University of Montana
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Kaitlin Tapondjou
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: ktallen45@gmail.com
Current Position: Consultant Staff at UF
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Walter Tapondjou
Herpetology
Advisor: David Blackburn
Contact: w.tapondjounkonm@ufl.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Wildlife and Conservation Science, East Texas A&M University
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Emmanuel Toussaint
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Contact: emmanuel.touss1@gmail.com
Current Position: Curator of Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Geneva
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Deb Triant
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Carrie Tyler
Invertebrate Paleontology
Advisor: Michal Kowalewski
Contact: carrie.tyler@unlv.edu
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Paleontology, Department of Geosciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA
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Gaurav Vaidya
Herbarium and Informatics
Advisor: Nico Cellinese
Contact: gaurav@ggvaidya.com
Current Position: Semantic Web Technologist at Renaissance Computing Institute (renci)
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Yi-Ming Weng
Lepidoptera
Advisor: Akito Kawahara
Contact: weng76111@gmail.com
Current Position: New Postdoc at the University of Okinawa Evolutionary Genomics Unit
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