Andrew Letten

Dr. Andrew Letten is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of the Environment, University of Queensland. He holds an ARC DECRA Fellowship and has held prestigious postdoctoral positions at ETH Zurich (Marie Curie Fellow), Stanford University, and the University of Canterbury. His research focuses on ecological community stability under environmental variability, scaling from theoretical models to real-world systems. Key areas include microbial ecology, coexistence mechanisms, and biodiversity dynamics.

Education: PhD in Ecology (UNSW Australia), followed by postdoctoral work in computational genomics (Stanford) and microbial ecology (ETH Zurich). Research emphasizes resource fluctuations, evolutionary dynamics, and ecological theory integration. Major contributions include linking coexistence theory to microbial competition and antibiotic resistance.

Scientific awards: Marie Curie Fellowship (2018-2020), ARC DECRA (2021-2025). His work spans Ecology Letters, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and PNAS. Current focus includes fluctuation-dependent coexistence, dormancy strategies, and eco-evolutionary feedbacks.

Labs/Teams: Collaborates with global networks in microbial ecology and theoretical biology, including Levine/Hall (ETH Zurich) and Stouffer (Canterbury). Active in interdisciplinary projects combining computational modeling and empirical field studies.