Dr. Péter Molnár

Biography

Péter Molnár is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto specializing in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He holds a Master of Science from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and a PhD from the University of Alberta, followed by postdoctoral research at Princeton University. His research is broadly interested in understanding climate change and land use change, specifically how anthropogenic influences alter dynamical interactions that shape ecosystems. He leads the Laboratory of Quantitative Global Change Ecology at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), where his work blends mathematical modeling with field data collection and analysis of existing long-term datasets. The primary aim of his research is to identify mechanisms driving ecological changes and forecast the likely future impacts of global change, contributing to the development of strategies for wildlife conservation and health. His current efforts focus on the impacts of global change on population and community dynamics within diverse systems, ranging from the High Arctic to tropical rainforests in Central America.

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