Benjamin Van Doren Associate Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Benjamin is an associate professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and was recently 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.