Professor of Emerging Infectious Disease Ecology

Hildebrand-Laumeister Chair in Plant Pathology

Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

University of California, Berkeley

Education

Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
M.S. Entomology Universidade de São Paulo, 1999
B.Sc. Agronomy Universidade de São Paulo, 1997

Appointments

Chair, Division of Organisms & Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 2019-2023
Affiliated Faculty, Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, 2019-
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 2016-
Chercheur Étranger (Foreign Researcher), l’Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Biologie et Génétique des Interactions Plante-Parasite, Montpellier, France, 2013-14
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 2011-2016
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley, 2006-11
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Environment Protection Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003-05

Honors and awards

UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award, 2024
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021
Lee M. Hutchins Award, American Phytopathological Society, 2021
Hildebrand-Laumeister Chair in Plant Pathology, University of California, Berkeley, 2014-
Marie Curie Research Fellow, Montpellier, France, 2013-14
Fulbright Research Scholar, Montpellier, France, 2013-14
Syngenta Award (early career award), American Phytopathological Society, 2012
Schroth Faces of the Future in Bacteriology Award, American Phytopathological Society, 2009
Hellman Family Faculty Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
Julius H. Freitag Memorial Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
‘A’ Encarnado. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 1997

Publications

Peer-reviewed research manuscripts: 140. See full list
Reviews, book chapters: 21.
Link to Google scholar, ORCID, Scopus.

Teaching at UC Berkeley

Undergraduate level – Insects and Human Society, Microbial Ecology, Freshman Seminars.
Graduate level – Pathogen and Disease Ecology, Current Topics in Arthropod Science, Seminar in Environmental Sciences.

Brief CV