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Mercedes Pascual
Pascual Lab- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- Rosemary Grant Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Ph.D., Joint Program of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
Contact information
- University of Michigan
2045 Kraus Natural Science Building
830 North University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048 - Phone: (734) 615-9808
- Lab: (734) 615-9805
- Fax: (734) 763-0544
- Email: pascual@umich.edu
Fields of study
Theoretical ecology and disease ecology
Academic background
I received my Ph.D degree in 1995 from the Joint Program of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I was awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship for studies at Princeton, and more recently, a Centennial Fellowship in Global and Complex Systems from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. I am currently affiliated with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at U-M and with the Santa Fe Institute as an external faculty.
Graduate students
Andres Baeza, Edward Baskerville
Postdoctoral fellows
Yael Artzy-Randrup, Trevor Bedford, Antonio Golubski, Mary ‘Molly’ Rorick, Pamela Martinez
Mercedes Pascual's HHMI webpage
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Center for the Study of Complex Systems
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