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Clara Qin is an ecologist, statistician, and environmental scholar who studies how fungal communities respond to multifaceted global change. Having researched soil microbiota in both unmanaged and agricultural systems, her work aims to unify eco-evolutionary theory across disciplinary contexts through methods development and process-explicit statistical modeling. She received her PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2023 and has won numerous awards for her papers and talks.