A bit about me...
Christopher D. Beatty Ph.D.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
current:
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California
VISITING SCHOLAR, PROGRAM FOR CONSERVATION GENOMICS
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, New York, New York
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
past:
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, New York
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW, CENTER FOR COMPARATIVE & POPULATION GENOMICS
CHRISTIAN ALBRECHTS UNIVERSITY OF KIEL, Kiel, Germany
RESEARCH FELLOW, GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE (DAAD)
Zoological Institute: Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY, Santa Clara, California
LECTURER IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, DEPT. OF BIOLOGY
UNIVERSIDADE DE VIGO, Pontevedra, Spain
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW , SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION & SCIENCE
EDUCATION
CARLETON UNIVERSITY, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Ph.D. BIOLOGY
Supervisor: Tom Sherratt
Thesis: Warning Signal Evolution in Natural and Virtual Populations.
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
M.S. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE-ECOLOGY
Supervisors: Paul Jepson & Judy Li
Thesis: Habitat Associations and Life Histories of Odonata in Riverine Wetlands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. Coursework emphasis in community ecology, insect ecology and systematics.
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Urbana, Illinois, USA
B.S. ECOLOGY, ETHOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Specialized curriculum including graduate-level courses in freshwater ecology and evolutionary ecology
on the trail of neotropical damselflies; pacaya-samiria national reserve, peru
Osaka, Japan on a rainy day during a study of damselfly territoriality