Madeleine Ostwald
Lecturer in Ecology, Conservation, & Biodiversity
Email: m.ostwald@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: G.E. Fogg Building, 5.13
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Madeleine Ostwald is a behavioural ecologist whose research focuses on the biodiversity, social behaviour, and functional ecology of wild bees. She holds a BS in Biology from Cornell University (2016) and a PhD in Animal Behaviour from Arizona State University (2022), where she studied the ecological drivers of alternative social strategies in carpenter bees. She conducted her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, using museum specimens and computer vision approaches to understand how bees respond to climate change. She joined the Department of Biology at Queen Mary as a Lecturer in 2025.