Assistant Professor CSU Fullerton (2025-)
Postdoctoral Researcher California Academy of Sciences (2023-2025)
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (2016-2023)
B.S. Zoology & Entomology North Carolina State University (2013-2016)
Dr. Anna Holmquist, PI
People
Like many arachnologists and entomologists, my fascination with spiders and other arthropods began at a young age. I was astonished by the diversity of these creatures and this interest stayed with me.
I earned my Bachelors degree from North Carolina State University, where I studied zoology and entomology. Here, I began working in urban entomology and community ecology. My research led me to my doctorate program at UC Berkeley where I studied the interaction of historical and modern processes in biodiversity formation as well as biotic community response to novel environmental disturbances.
I then began a postdoctoral position in the Center for Comparative Genomics at the California Academy of Sciences, leading an initiative to generate a DNA reference library for California insects using natural history collections. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Science at CSU Fullerton, continuing my research on arthropod biodiversity.