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Yonas Meheretu

Researcher, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies
My research bridges small mammal ecology, their public health relevance within the One Health framework, and sustainable rodent pest management (EBRM). I study how biodiversity and land use shape the dynamics of small mammal populations and zoonotic pathogens using ecological and genetic tools.

Presentation

PhD in Biology from the University of Antwerp, Evolutionary Ecology Group, Belgium. Thesis title: "Ecology of rodents in agroecosystems in northern Ethiopia: pest and public health, 2008-2012."

MSc and BSc in Biology (Ecological and Systematic Zoology) from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Postdoc and research associate at the Department of Population Biology, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, in 2012/2013 and 2020/2021.

Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, Mekelle University, Ethiopia.

Director of the Institute of Mountain Research & Development at Mekelle University, Ethiopia (2017-2021).

Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Zoological Sciences, Addis Ababa University.

Research projects

Research groups

Teaching

Conservation Genetics

Ecological Zoology and Entomology 

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