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Danielle Levesque is an Associate Professor at the University of Maine's Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and has conducted postdoctoral research at University Malaysia Sarawak.
- Ph.D., Zoology, University of KwaZulu-Natal (2014)
- M.Sc., Neurobiology and Physiology, Brock University (2008)
- B.Sc., Wildlife Biology, McGill University (2006)
Her research focuses on evolutionary and ecological physiology, particularly the comparative energetics and thermoregulation of mammals. She explores how metabolic flexibility impacts energy budgets and climate change predictions, bridging comparative physiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology.
Recent publications highlight trends in tropical mammalian thermoregulation, torpor evolution, and climate resilience. Her work spans species with ancestral traits, testing hypotheses on endothermy evolution and climate adaptation mechanisms.
Dr. Levesque received an NSF CAREER award in 2021 for her work on physiological determinants in tropical mammals and has contributed to methodological standards for metabolic data transparency.
