Assistant Professor
Email: sicilia.marti@gmail.com
Dr. Siciliana-Martina is a faculty member at Texas State University. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher and PhD student in the Lawing Lab. She explores the functional relationship between traits and the environment in populations of wild, captive, reintroduced, urban-dwelling, and domestic species to inform the ecology and evolution of species and predict future trends associated with urbanization and conservation success. She was working on our NSF grant, “Vertebrate Functional Traits as Indicators of Ecosystem Function in Deep and Shallow Time.” Leila received her masters degree in zoology from Michigan State University. She was an adjunct biology instructor for Our Lady of the Lake University (San Antonio, TX). Dr. Siciliana-Martina’s Ph.D. was co-advised by Dr. Jessica Light. To see current research program information, see her page.