Dongmin (Dennis) Kim

I am a quantitative ecologist interested in understanding why individuals behave differently. I use applied statistical methods (animal movement models, hidden Markov models, and habitat selection models) to understand the causes and consequences of animal movement. My research examines how internal states, including zoonotic pathogen infection and memory, shape movement behavior and contribute to heterogeneity among individuals. I am also a founder/data curator of MoveDisease Archive.

Currently, I am a George E. Burch Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Previously, I was a postdoctoral associate in Jesús Pinto-Ledezma's lab at the University of Minnesota and Paul Moorcroft's lab at Harvard University. I received my PhD at the University of Minnesota in 2024, where I was co-advised by Allison Shaw and John Fieberg. Before my PhD, I studied statistics at the University of Minnesota, Morris.