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Else Fjerdingstad is an adjunct professor at the Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences. Before joining New York Tech, she taught at Marymount Manhattan College for several semesters after years as an assistant professor at CUNY researching and teaching in the field of evolutionary genetics and ecology. Her assistant professorship followed postdoctoral research in Australia, Switzerland, and France, funded by the Australian Research Council, the European Union’s Training and Mobility in Research network and a personal fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark.

Her main research areas, which she started tackling as a graduate student with a scholarship from the Danish Natural Sciences Research Council, concern the evolution of mating systems, dispersal strategies and cooperation and involve experiments, fieldwork, and morphometry, as well as population and sociogenetics. She has taught heredity, evolution, social evolution, environmental science, controversies in environmental science, and bioethics at the 100 to 700 levesl at other institutions, and is teaching Foundation of the Scientific Process at New York Tech.