Emma Teeling is a leader in the fields of mammalian phylogenetics and comparative genomics, with particular expertise in bat biology. She established her research group at University College Dublin (UCD) in 2005. Since then, she has been awarded a European Research Council Starting grant (2013), a Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Young Researcher Award (2006), and recently an Irish Research Council (IRC) Laureate Award (2018). A number of her publications have over-turned conventional paradigms in mammalian biology. She is a member Irish Research Council Board, 2015; a member of Royal Irish Academy, 2016; and was awarded Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, 2017 by the French Government. Teeling’s TED talk has been viewed half a million times, and she has appeared frequently in the media including BBC’s Science Club. Teeling received a BSc in Zoology from University College Dublin in 1995; an MSc in Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Cochrane Ecological Institute, Alberta, Canada in 1996; and a PhD in Molecular Phylogenetics, Queen’s University Belfast, N.Ireland and The University of California, Riverside, California, USA.
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