CCS Director Candidate Talk: Dr. Andrew Altieri

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Andrew Altieri is an associate professor in the field of applied ecology at the University of Florida. His work examines how global drivers, including habitat degradation, species invasions, extinctions and overexploitation, have cascading effects on the biodiversity and emergent properties of coastal ecosystems. He employs an interdisciplinary combination of field experiments, large-scale observations, historical reconstruction and ecophysiology techniques that integrates from the organism to seascape. By testing hypotheses about thresholds, limiting factors and synergistic interactions, his work supports conservation and sustainable solutions towards coastal resilience.

Dr. Altieri earned his BA in Marine Biology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 1999 and his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University in 2006, followed by postdocs at Northeastern University and Brown University. Andrew was a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama (2012-2017) before joining the faculty at UF in 2018. Altieri received the NSF CAREER Award in 2023 and is currently serving as the Interim Director of CCS. He also holds professional appointments of Research Associate at STRI and Adjunct Professor at McGill University.

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