Damian Elias

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
Environmental Science, Policy & Management
Bio/CV: 

I am a first-generation college student who went to the University of Arizona. In my 2nd year, I switched to a STEM focused major (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). I earned my PhD at Cornell University in the Neurobiology and Behavior department working on spider behavior. I worked as a Postdoc at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia before starting as an assistant professor in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) department in 2009. In ESPM, my lab studies behavioral ecology and animal communication.

For full research description, please visit Damian's Faculty Profile.

Research interests: 

animal behaviorbehavioral ecologyanimal communicationneuroethologysensory systems

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