Benjamin M. Van Doren
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor
Benjamin is an assistant professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and was a Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. He completed his graduate research at the University of Oxford studying the evolution and flexibility of avian migration.
He enjoys using a range of tools and approaches—from light-level geolocators, to radar, to genomics—to better understand the determinants of migration. Benjamin studied biology and statistics as an undergraduate at Cornell University and has been BirdCasting since 2012.
Scientific Team
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