Research Expertise and Interest
global change, environmental science, sustainability, biodiversity, invasive species, population genomics
Research Description
Professor Roderick joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1999, He received his AB in biology from Dartmouth College in 1981 and PhD in zoology from UC Berkeley in 1987. He held positions previously at the University of Maryland, College Park, and University of Hawaii, Manoa.
Professor Roderick chaired the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, 2014-2019 and currently is the Faculty Director for UC’s Gump South Pacific Research Station in French Polynesia. He is a faculty affiliate with the Essig Museum of Entomology, the Energy and Resources Group (ERG), the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), and the Berkeley Center for Ocean Futures (BeCOF). Recent teaching includes the ecology section of introductory biology (Bio1B) as well as field courses, including Berkeley's "Moorea Course" (ESPM C107/IB 158LF) and a new Island Sustainability Semester (ESPM 109A-E).
Professor Roderick holds the William Muriece Hoskins Professorship of Chemical and Molecular Entomology and spent the 2023-24 academic year on sabbatical in Oxford as a Plumer Visiting Fellow with St. Anne's College and a Visiting Professor in Biology. He is the recipient of the 2013 College of Natural Resources Distinguished teaching award and shared the 2010 Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors Award for Excellence in Research. Professor Roderick is Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, London, Senior Research Fellow with the Center for Tropical Research, Institute of the Environment, UCLA, a member of the Center for Invasive Species Research, UC Riverside, and former Fulbright Scholar and Foreign Researcher with INRAE, France. He has served the State Department, National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency, and US Department of Agriculture, in various capacities, including chairing the first Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum on Alien Invasive Species involving 17 economies in Beijing in 2005.
Professor Roderick’s research has appeared in Science, Nature, Nature Reviews Genetics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Ecosphere, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Global Change Biology, Ecological Applications, Journal of Biogeography, Biological Invasions, GigaScience, Ecology, Ecology Letters, American Naturalist, Annual Review of Entomology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Molecular Ecology, Biological Control, Genetics, Evolution, Current Biology, PLoS Biology, PLoS One, Peer J, Zootaxa, and other journals. He has edited two volumes, Evolution and Biological Control (2012) and DNA Barcoding of Life (2005).
