Kelly Zamudio

Kelly Zamudio is the Doherty Chair in Molecular Biology in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas Austin. She was formerly the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of Herpetology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.

Education Zamudio completed a B.A. in Biology at University of California Berkeley in 1991. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996. As of April 2020, Zamudio has published over 150 papers which have together received over 9,000 citations.

Awards and honors 2019 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2018 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. 2017 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Cornell University.