Dongmin (Dennis) Kim

I am a quantitative ecologist interested in applying statistical tools to infer behavioural processes from empirical data. I am also the lead data curator for the MoveDisease Archive, a global data platform linking animal movement data with diagnostic and health data from wildlife systems worldwide. My research focuses on understanding how behavioural processes vary within and among populations and species in response to individual heterogeneity and zoonotic disease. I address broad questions in movement ecology, disease ecology, and conservation. My work also involves developing technical and governance frameworks for integrating bio-logging and disease data.

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.