Who we are
IGCB Leadership
Peter Reich
Director of the Institute for Global Change Biology (IGCB)
Sarah Raubenheimer
IGCB Program Manager and Research Specialist
Thiago Gonçalves Souza
Head of IGCB Postdoc Development; Adjunct Research Scientist
IGCB Faculty Steering Committee
Inés Ibáñez
Professor of Ecosystem Science and Management (School for the 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
Alexandra Paige Fischer
Associate Professor, School of 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 of Environment & 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
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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 (SEAS) / 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
Jeffrey Beem-Miller
Post doctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Alice Bernard
IGCB Research Fellow
Shengxi Gui
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School for Environment and Sustainability
Qiaoqiao Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
Katie Rocci
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Global Change Biology, School for Environment and Sustainability
Yiluan Song
Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, Michigan Institute for Data Science
Chang Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable EnterprisP
Lei Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Exchange Fellows
Neha Chauhan
IGCB Graduate Exchange Fellow
Xinli Chen
IGCB Postdoctoral Exchange Fellow; Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta Exchange fellow
Guopeng Liang
IGCB Exchange Fellow; Brown Postdoc Fellow, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University
Xujun Liu
IGCB Exchange Fellow; South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
Vanessa Mariano
IGCB Exchange Fellow
Yihang Duan
IGCB Exchange Fellow, Research Fellow, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Past Research Fellows
Liting Zheng
2022-2025 IGCB Research Fellow
Cheyenne Lei
2022-2024 IGCB Research Fellow
Leo Ohyama
2024 IGCB Research Fellow
Stephanie Schmiege
2024 IGCB Research Fellow
2024 Graduate Fellows
William Brinkerhoff
IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student, Resource Ecology Management
Julia Eckberg
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tomás Fuentes-Rohwer
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Nepsis García
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Pre-Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jason Hagani
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Cheyenne Graham
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Scott Jackson
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability
Frances Li
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jacob Longmeyer
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Diana Marcela Medellin Zabala
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quinn Moon
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Tim Muhich
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainabilty
Raquel Pizzardo
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Collin Richter
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Mariah Schlis-Elias
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Charlotte Sedlock
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Pre-Candidate, School for Environment and Sustainability
Anna Yue Yu
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Jiali Zhu
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student, School for Environment and Sustainability
Students
Past Exchange Fellows
Yiluan Song
IGCB Doctoral Exchange Fellow
Yuan Li
IGCB Exchange Associate Professor, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology
2023 Graduate Fellows
William Brinkerhoff
IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student, Resource Ecology Management
Julia Eckberg
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jennifer Flores
IGCB Graduate Fellow; PhD Student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Etienne Herrick
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate School for Environment and Sustainability
Cecilia Howard
Ph.D Candidate, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Yi Liu
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability
Mislael A. Valentín Cortés
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate Department of Epidemiology
Olivia Vought
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Shike Zhang
IGCB Graduate Fellow, PhD Student School for Environment and Sustainability