Dongmin (Dennis) Kim

I am a quantitative ecologist interested in understanding why individuals behave differently. I use applied statistical methods, including animal movement models, hidden Markov models, and habitat selection models, to investigate the mechanisms underlying variation in animal behavior, with a particular focus on 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.