About me
Contact: huan2919 at umn.edu
As how we live in the world, living things interact with each others in many different ways. These interactions affect how they survive and live together. Using mathematics, I hope to understand how the interactions are shaped and they help different species coexist.
In 2020, I graduated from National Taiwan University with a B.S. in Mathematics. While helping with Fushan’s forest census, I became interested in ecology. After graduation, I joined David Zelený‘s Vegetation Ecology Lab as a master’s student. I developed statistical methods to understand what shapes metacommunities, and I also enjoyed helping with lab’s fieldwork in Taiwan’ cloud forests. After completing my M.S. in 2023, I worked as a research assistant in Po-Ju Ke’s Theoretical Ecology Lab. I studied how soil microbes left behind by dead trees affect seedling competition by a greenhouse experiment. During this time, I realized that I wanted to combine my interests in mathematics and ecology, so I decided to pursue a Ph.D. degree in theoretical ecology.
In 2024, I joined Allison Shaw’s Lab in the Graduate Program of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. My current research focuses on how organisms interact with each other by changing their environment. I hope this work will help us better understand how species live together.