Short Bio: Annette Ostling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, and a core faculty member at the Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on mechanisms of competitive coexistence, and whether and how they can be inferred from observed patterns in ecological communities. She studied physics (A.B. Columbia 1994, M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1999) and worked as a programmer for Bloomberg before switching into ecology. She then earned a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley and was a Princeton University Council on Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow. She was on the faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan and served as an Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering, before beginning her current position at UT Austin.
CNS Profile: http://links.utexas.edu/fndgvc
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/ostlinglab
Talk title: Coexistence of competing structure populations: delineating mechanisms of niche differentiation