Dr. Angélica L. González - Nutrient dynamics and stoichiometry: Perspectives from small-scale microcosm experiments to global syntheses
Overview
González will discuss how the use of multiple approaches can lead to better understanding of the patterns and mechanisms of organismal to whole-ecosystem stoichiometry, and their responses to changes in major biogeochemical cycles.
Dr. Angélica González is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology and the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology at Rutgers University. Dr. González got tenure recently, being the first female professor getting tenure in her department.
González is a broadly trained ecologist with interests that range from organismal traits to community and ecosystem ecology. Much of her research is concerned with the effects of natural and human-induced environmental changes on the diversity, composition and function of communities and ecosystems. Drawing from general principles, González aims to develop a more integrated understanding of ecological systems. Her work combines theory, observations, experiments, and data synthesis approaches to help predict ecological patterns and processes across space and time. She was the Chair of the 2022 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Unifying Ecology Across Scales. Her research is being supported by two NSF DEB awards, including a highly prestigious NSF CAREER award, and two awards from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv).
She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Master in zoology from the Universidad de Concepcion in Chile, and a Ph.D. in ecology from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in Chile. She was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia in Canada.