Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. He holds a BSc in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. from Harvard. Before joining Princeton, he was a National Science Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and then an assistant professor at UCLA in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, working in the Institute for Society and Genetics.

Dr. Campbell-Staton’s research focuses on how humans, technology, and politics influence the evolutions of species. In his work, he seeks to identify genes and traits that allow animals to rapidly adapt to new environmental pressures. His recent research projects include the consequences of the increasing frequency of tuskless elephants in the Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, how lizard are adapting to increased heat and artificial structures across Puerto Rico, the adaptation of wolves around Chernobly to generations of radiation exposure, and reproductive adaptations in American alligators in Lake Apopka, Florida to high levels of toxins.