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Katie Maloney is a geobiologist with research interests in the co-evolution of the biosphere and geosphere. Her work employs field-based paleoenvironmental analysis, focusing on the diversification and evolution of early eukaryotes and macroalgae, as well as the paleobiology and paleoecology of enigmatic fossils. She also aims to reconstruct ecosystems during critical transitions in Earth's history. Currently, she holds a faculty position at Michigan State University as a Rebanks Fellow from the Royal Ontario Museum, where she investigates the macroalgae rapid radiation of animals in the Burgess Shale. Previously, she was an NSERC Postdoctoral Scholar at McGill University, where she documented the ecological expansion of Neoproterozoic seaweed in paleoenvironments. Maloney holds degrees from the University of Toronto, including a Ph.D. (2022) and M.S. (2017), and from McMaster University (HBSc, 2016).
Department of Psychology