Dr. Xose Lopez Goldar
- About
Biography
Dr. Xosé López Goldar holds a B.S in Biology and a M.S in Biodiversity and Ecosystems (University of Vigo), and his Ph.D in Biology (Spanish National Research Council). He also had 5 years of postdoctoral experience at Michigan State University, Montana State University (Wetzel lab) and Cornell University (Agrawal lab). He started his position at Illinois State University as assistant professor in Evolutionary Ecology in the fall of 2025.
Teaching Interests & Areas
Student engagement; Coevolution; Plant-insect interactions; Chemical ecology; Plant and insect physiology.
Research Interests & Areas
I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in the drivers that govern species interactions, particularly between plants and insects. To do so I combine chemical ecology, population genetic and molecular techniques. I am broadly interested in plant local adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses, how plant organ-specific traits mediate interactions with insects along environmental gradients, and how climate change stressors may disrupt plant-insect ecological and evolutionary dynamics.