Camille DeSisto

Camille DeSisto is a quantitative ecologist and conservation biologist who studies forests undergoing environmental change. 

Camille DeSisto is a quantitative ecologist and conservation biologist who studies forests undergoing environmental change. Her collaborative and interdisciplinary research focuses on ecological interactions in tropical forests. She uses network science, spatial statistics, biodiversity surveys, and social surveys to study socioecological interactions in human-modified systems. Camille received her A.B. in Integrative Biology from Harvard College and her Ph.D. in Ecology at Duke University. She has also held positions as a Fulbright Student Researcher and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rice University Sustainability Institute. 

As an Environmental Fellow, Camille will work with Professor Charles Davis to investigate how environmental change shapes relationships between plants, animals, and people in tropical forests across multiple spatial and temporal scales. 

Faculty Host: Charles Davis, Harvard Kennedy School