Postdoctoral Fellow
in disease ecology
at Emory University
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Civitello Lab at Emory University investigating the disease ecology of Schistosoma haemotobium in Tanzania. I study the spatiotemporal transmission dynamics of this neglected tropical disease.
Starting 1 July 2024, I will be an Assistant Professor in the Evolutionary & Population Biology Department of the Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics (University of Amsterdam). Please be in touch if you are interested in working with me. Guidelines for prospective research students will be up later this year.
My research aims to unearth the factors that determine the diversity of and interactions within biological communities, with a special interest in host-parasite interactions and human-environmental interfaces. My primary system looks at seasonality and transmission risk of a neglected tropical disease, schistosomiasis.
I completed my Ph.D. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the State University of New York, Albany in the Turner Lab in 2020. I was concurrently an Ornithology Research Fellow at the New York State Museum, co-advised by Dr. Jeremy Kirchman. Thereafter, I spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Davidson College teaching courses in Ecology and Biostatistics.
Naima C. Starkloff 