Maya Zomer

Postdoctoral Researcher



Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment (DSE)

University of California, Berkeley



About Me


Professional Experience 

  • Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science &      Environment, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2024 – present)
  • PhD Researcher at the Desertification Research Center (CIDE-CSIC), University of Valencia, Spain (2017 – 2024), supervised by Juli G. Pausas and Bruno Moreira.
  • Visiting Scholar at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2022), hosted by Benjamin Blonder.
  • MPhil Researcher at the University of Plymouth, UK (2014 – 2016), supervised by Paul Ramsay.

Education 

  • PhD in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain (2024)
  • MPhil in Plant Ecology, University of Plymouth, UK (2016)
  • PGDip in Ecology, University of East Anglia, UK (2014)
  • BA in International Development, University of Sussex, UK (2010)

Research Focus 

  • Post-fire regeneration and trait-based resilience under global change
  • Experimental ecology and plant ecophysiology
  • Stochastic and agent-based vegetation modelling 
  • Integration of ecological models into conservation decision frameworks 
  • Reproducible and open-science workflows for data sharing and collaboration

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