Amity Wilczek

Amity received her Ph.D. in evolutionary ecology at Harvard University, and has recently joined the unique community of Deep Springs College as the Herbert Reich Chair of Natural Sciences. Her research explores how plants tolerate and adapt to diverse climates which she studies using a combination of fieldwork, genetic analysis, and mathematical modeling. Her goal is to understand how plants adapt to climate shifts (both past and present) and how crop plants can be more successfully grown in different locations. Amity has taught courses in ecology, evolution, plant biology, and economic botany and received multiple teaching awards from the Bok Center at Harvard University. Amity loves to travel, and she has enjoyed the opportunity to indulge this fascination with her fieldwork in diverse ecosystems and locations throughout the world. She also has a long-standing interest in the biology of islands, particularly the unique flora and fauna that evolve in extreme isolation.

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