Kathleen Treseder

Kathleen Kay Treseder is an American ecologist who specializes in the interplay between global climate change and fungal ecology. She also serves as a member of the Irvine City Council after being elected to the position in 2022. She is currently a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Microbiology, and the Ecological Society of America.

As an undergraduate she co-authored a research paper that was published in ''Nature'' and was featured on the cover of the issue. Since then, Treseder has published over 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers that have been cited over 19,000 times. Provided by Wikipedia