Who we are
IGCB Leadership
Peter Reich
Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB)
Thiago Gonçalves Souza
Head of IGCB Postdoc Development; Adjunct Research Scientist
Yihang Duan
Head of IGCB Graduate/Exchange Fellow Development and International Collaboration
IGCB Faculty Steering Committee
Inés Ibáñez
Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management (School for Environment and Sustainability)
Marie O'Neill
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Peter Reich
Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB)
Nate Sanders
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Nathan Sheldon
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Allison Steiner
Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Kai Zhu
Associate Professor of Geospatial Data Sciences and Ecosystem Science and Management
Affiliate Faculty
Karen Alofs
Assistant Professor Ecosystem Science and Management Water Conservation + Restoration
Jacob Allgeier
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Regina Baucom
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Jennifer Blesh
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Neil Carter
Associate Professor, PI of Conservation & Coexistence Group
Aimée Classen
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of Biological Station
Meghan Duffy
Susan S. Kilham Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Kristy Ferraro
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Alexandra Paige Fischer
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Johannes Foufopoulos
Associate Professor Ecosystem Science and Management Conservation + Restoration
Benjamin Goldstein
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Thiago Gonçalves Souza
Head of IGCB Postdoc Development; Adjunct Research Scientist
Dimitris Gounaridis
Research Specialist, School for Environment and Sustainability
Carina Gronlund
Research Assistant Professor, Social Environment and Health Program
Heidi Hausermann
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Jennifer Head
Assistant Professor, Institute for Global Change Biology, School of Public Health
Mia Howard
LSA Collegiate Fellow, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Meha Jain
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Timothy James
Professor and Curator of Fungi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks
Associate Professor Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Geoffrey Lewis
Research Specialist, Center for Sustainable Systems
Mark Lindquist
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Ivette Perfecto
James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice
Kerri Pratt
Professor Department of Chemistry; Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences; Applied Physics Program
Joan Nassauer
Professor, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability
Joshua Newell
Professor School for Environment and Sustainability / Program in the Environment (PiTE)
Mohammed Ombadi
Assistant Professor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Anshuman Swain
Assistant Professor, Assistant Curator, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
María Natalia Umaña
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
John Vandermeer
Asa Gray Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brian Weeks
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability. Affiliated Researcher, Bird Division, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
Ben Winger
Assistant Professor and Curator of Birds, Museum of Zoology and Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Research Fellows
Elnaz Amirahmadi
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Michigan
Alice Bernard
IGCB Research Fellow
Monish Deshpande
IGCB Research Fellow
Kara Dobson
IGCB Research Fellow
Research Interests: Climate change effects on plant community structure and function
Advisor: Kai Zhu, Peter Reich
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Julia Eckberg
IGCB Research Fellow, 2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow
Shengxi Gui
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School for Environment and Sustainability
Stephen Jane
IGCB Research Fellow
Research Interests: Aquatic ecosystem responses to regional to global scale changes, and the consequences of those changes for ecosystems and the people who rely on them; shifting oxythermal habitat through time across thousands of central US lakes and impacts on fish biodiversity.
Advisor: Karen Alofs, Jacob Allgeier
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Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa
IGCB Research Fellow
Research Interests: Eco-evolutionary biologist investigating biodiversity dynamics and the evolution of complexity
Advisor: Anshuman Swain
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Divyashree Rana
IGCB Research Fellow
Research Interests: The intersection of landscape ecology, carnivore biology, and conservation science; socio-economic drivers of population connectivity and associated human-wildlife conflict risk, in the context of global change.
Advisor: Neil Carter
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Hyun Seok Yoon
IGCB Research Fellow
Research Interests: Conservation planning optimization
Advisor: Kai Zhu, Neil Carter, Thiago Gonçalves-Souza
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Lei Zhang
IGCB Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Research Interests: Terrestrial Biogeochemistry, Mechanistic (process-based) modelling, Predictive mapping, Remote sensing, GIS, AI
Advisor: Peter Reich
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Hengxing Zou
IGCB Research Fellow
Research Interests: How the change in species distribution over space and time affects species interaction
Advisor: Brian Weeks, Kai Zhu
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Exchange Fellows
Guopeng Liang
IGCB Exchange Professor, Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong
Research Interests: Identifying nature-based solutions to carbon sequestration, climate mitigation, and food security
Advisor: Peter Reich
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IGCB Project: Forest Carbon Cycling
Graduate Fellows
Nepsis Garcia
2026 IGCB Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quinn Moon
2026 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Bethany Pace
Aleana RaeAnn Savage
2026 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Madisun Woodward
2026 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research Interests: Bats, Disease Ecology, Host-Parasite Coevolution, Metapopulation Dynamics, Environmental Justice
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Past Research Fellows
Tsun Fung (Tom) Au
2022-2025 IGCB Research Fellow
Rémi Bardou
2023-2024 IGCB Research Fellow
Rose Brinkhoff
2022-2024 IGCB Research Fellow
Cheyenne Lei
2022-2024 IGCB Research Fellow
Qiaoqiao Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Wenqi Luo
2023-2025 IGCB Research Fellow
Deqiang Ma
2022-2024 IGCB Research Fellow
Kit McLean
2023-2026 IGCB Research Fellow
Sarah Raubenheimer
2023-2026 IGCB Research Fellow
Katie Rocci
2023-2026 IGCB Research Fellow
Yiluan Song
2023 IGCB Research Fellow, Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Research Interests: The intersection of environmental data science and global change biology
Advisor: Kai Zhu
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IGCB Project: Forest Phenology
IGCB Project: Airborne Pollen
IGCB Project: Phenology in High School Classrooms
Chang Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
Past Exchange Fellows
Neha Chauhan
IGCB Graduate Exchange Fellow
Xinli Chen
IGCB Postdoctoral Exchange Fellow
Vanessa Mariano
IGCB Exchange Fellow
Charlotte Sedlock
IGCB Exchange Fellow
Past Graduate Fellows
Rachel Cable
2025 IGCB Graduate Fellow
Jennifer Flores
2023, 2025 IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests: Invasion ecology, Ecosystem dynamics, Agroecology
Advisor: John Vandermeer
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Tiantian Zhu
2024-2025 IGCB Graduate Fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences
William Brinkerhoff
2023-2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student, Resource Ecology Management
Julia Eckberg
2023-2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tomás Fuentes-Rohwer
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests: Botany, functional ecology, tropical ecology
Advisor: María Natalia Umaña
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IGCB Project: Hurricane disturbance and shifts in forests
Nepsis García
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Pre-Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Cheyenne Graham
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests: Hybridization, Disease ecology, Immunology, Mammals
Advisors: Kelly Speer, Meghan Duffy
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Jason Hagani
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Scott Jackson
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability
Frances Li
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jacob Longmeyer
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests: Agroecology, ant & earthworm ecology, soil health
Advisor: John Vandermeer
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Diana Marcela Medellin-Zabala
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quinn Moon
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tim Muhich
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainabilty
Raquel Pizzardo
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Collin Richter
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Mariah Schlis-Elias
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests: Mammalogy, dietary ecology, and ecological networks
Advisor: Catherine Badgley
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Charlotte Sedlock
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Pre-Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability
Anna Yue Yu
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Jiali Zhu
2024 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Etienne Herrick-Sutton
2023 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate School for Environment and Sustainability
Cecilia Howard
2023 IGCB Graduate Fellow, Ph.D Candidate, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Yi Liu
2023 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability
Mislael A. Valentín Cortés
2023 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate Department of Epidemiology
Research interests: Social and environmental epidemiology, climate change and disasters, structural health inequities, mixed-methods approaches in epidemiology, mental health, reproductive health, global health
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IGCB Project: Colonialism & Public Health
IGCB Project: Water justice in Puerto Rico
Olivia Vought
2023 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research interests: Global change, biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology
Advisor: Aimée Classen
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IGCB Project:Snow Melt
Shike Zhang
2023 IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability
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