Anahi Espindola

Anahí is from Argentina, and is a first-generation Assistant Professor at the Department of Entomology of the University of Maryland, College Park. With her research group, she studies how the environment drives the ecology and evolution of plant-pollinator interactions, using genomic, ecological, and experimental approaches. Anahí studied Biology at the National University of Córdoba (Argentina) and at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland), where she also received her Master's and PhD. She did two post-docs at the University of Idaho, funded by the Swiss and US National Science Foundations. Anahí was also part of the author team for the first UN-mandated IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) global report "Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production".