| Kim Medley | |
| Director of Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis |
Kim Medley is an American environmental scientist and the director of Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis since 2016.[1] She is known for her work on the influence of human disturbance on the ecological and evolutionary processes of disease vectors, such as mosquitoes and their pathogens.[2] Her work also includes examining human impacts on vector ecology understanding how human activities altered ecological processes, which further influence trajectories of evolution.[3]
Her dissertation focused on human-mediated dispersal and its influence on gene flow and adaptive evolution, which was awarded Outstanding Dissertation, 2012-UCF College of Sciences and Excellence in Graduate Research Award.[4] She further explored this topic and continued her study on Asian tiger mosquitoes.[5] Medley earned a Ph.D. in conservation biology, ecology and organismal biology from University of Central Florida, an M.S. from Missouri State University, and a B.A. from Drury University. Before joining Tyson Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis, she worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at University of Central Florida and as a graduate research assistant before that.
Medley received an International Biogeography Society Travel Award in 2009. She is a biodiversity fellow at Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University since 2018.