Maren N. Vitousek

My research is motivated by a fascination with the relationships between internal physiological processes and external behavioral interactions, and with making causal connections between these processes and their evolutionary outcomes.  I test these relationships in controlled experiments and observational studies that use a variety of tools including field endocrinology and immunology, metabolic measurements, behavioral observations, and morphological analyses.  I am also particularly interested in how physiological ecology can help to solve pressing problems in conservation.

I received my Ph.D. from Princeton University in the Wikelski Lab, and am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Safran Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder.