Simon Queenborough

Simon Queenborough is Senior Lecturer and Musser Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale School of the Environment. His botanical ecology research examines interactions among individuals, species, and communities in ecological and evolutionary time, with long-term field studies in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador – one of Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems.

His work investigates mechanisms of diversity maintenance, plant breeding systems, resource allocation trade-offs, and quantitative population dynamics. Current projects assess climate change impacts on tropical tree reproduction and pioneer species growth. He teaches tropical field courses, statistical analysis in R, and data visualization.

As TRI Director, he oversees summer research support for YSE students. He developed intro2r.info, an online resource for teaching R programming. Research combines field demography, phylogenetic comparative methods, and socio-ecological modeling to address conservation challenges.