Matthew W. Austin

Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow
Living Earth Collaborative, Washington University in St. Louis

I am a biologist who leverages plant-pollinator systems to test fundamental questions in biology. What are the ecological and evolutionary consequences of species interactions? How is climate change affecting how life reproduces? How does intraspecific variation affect population processes?

Currently, I am a postdoc with the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in St. Louis, where I am studying how climate change is affecting phenology, pollen transfer, and mixed mating system evolution. I work in close collaboration with the Missouri Botanical Garden, through the Smith and Olsen labs.

I received my PhD from the Dunlap lab at the University of Missouri – St. Louis, where I used bumble bees as a model to explore how intraspecific trait variation affects population-level processes.
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