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Ph.D. Student

Leona Neftaliem

Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2022
Leona is pursuing a PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University. Her research lies at the intersection of urban ecosystem ecology and social-ecological systems, developing new, comprehensive lenses into urban biogeochemistry using a socioecological framework. She is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Before Stanford, Leona worked as a research technician at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, designing technologically innovative climate change experiments, and she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology at George Washington University.

Education

B.S., George Washington University, Biology with honors, minor in Sustainability (2021)