Professional Positions
Postdoctoral Scholar, Case Western Reserve University - August 2022-Date
Research Assistant, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - August 2019-June 2022
Biology Lecturer (Part-time), Plateau State Polytechnic - October 2015-July 2019
Education
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China - 2019-2022
- PhD, Ecology
- Dissertation: Geographic variation in reproductive life history and its environmental correlates in a widespread lizard (Eremias argus)
University of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria - 2015-2017
- M.Sc., Zoology (minor: Parasitology)
- Thesis: Effect of some physicochemical factors on the abundance and composition of mosquito larvae in abandoned road construction sites in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State
University of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria - 2008-2013
Professional Experience
Editorial Roles
Associate Editor, Ecological Solutions and Evidence (British Ecological Society) - 2023-Date
Editorial Manager, EcoEvoRxiv Preprint - 2023-Date
Grant Reviews
- Reviewer for British Ecological Society grant applications - 2023-Date
- Case Western Reserve University SOURCE grant reviewer
Graduate Student Research Mentorship
Case Western Reserve University - 2022-Date
- Student: Osmary Medina-Báez
- Doctoral research project: Determinants of interspecific variation in butterfly thermal physiological traits and intraspecific variation of these traits across ontogeny.
Undergraduate Research Mentorship
University of Abuja, Nigeria - 2016-2017
- Student: Comfort Abubakar Inawu
- Undergraduate research project: Determinants of mosquito distribution and abundance in Abuja.
Field Research Assistant
Case Western Reserve University - 2016-2018
- Supervisor: Prof. Yoila David Malann
- Collect butterflies from the Cross River National Park for the butterfly national project
Community Services
Case Western Reserve University - 2023
- Judge for undergraduate Student Spring Intersections
- Judge for graduate research symposium
Professional Developments
- Arizona State University, Phoenix, United States - January 2023
- Integrating society, ecology, evolution, and plasticity to advance urban evolutionary ecology
- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States - Fall 2023
- Innovation in Teaching & Education for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Spring 2020
- Advance field course in Ecology and Conservation
- Demonstrator, Introduction to Innovative K-9 Science Education - Fall 2023
- Case Western Reserve University
- Demonstrated and implemented a global change Eco-physiology course intended for 9th-grade students, which introduced research methods K-9 teachers, as part of an NSF career grant program.
- Community Outreach Programs - Fall 2023
- Participant discussant for the Climate Change for Culture Change Project at Case Western Reserve University,
- Breakout session leader on: Everlasting Plastics and Biodiversity Crisis: The Impact of Microplastics Occurrence on Biodiversity, as part of the Canal to Cuyahoga: Everlasting Plastics in Context organized by the Everlasting Plastics exhibition group
Media Coverage and Talks
Invited Presentations
- Understanding the influence of multifarious environments on freshwater invertebrates in the 21st century: An African Region Case Study - Keynote address at the 4th conference of the Freshwater Biological Association of Nigeria, Sokoto, Nigeria
- How hot is too hot? Understanding the Q10 of temperature-sex determination reptile across latitudinal gradients in a rapidly changing climate - National Black Postdoctoral Association research showcase seminar
- Understanding the geographic variation in the life history patterns within populations of widespread lizards in China - Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Link
Conference Presentations
Deme GG, Wang D. & Du WG. (2023). The evolution of eggshell types and their association with life-history strategies in turtles - Society of Systematics Biologist Standalone Meeting, Mexico City, Mexico. Poster Presentation.
Deme GG, Yadanar K, Gaire R, Zakir T, Singh R, Poudel TR. & Campos-Arceiz A. Evaluating the social dimension factors to human-wildlife conflict (HWC) within countries in Tropical Asia - Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences 12 Advanced Field course in Ecology and Conservation. Oral Presentation.
Deme GG, Malann YD, Madara AA, Ahmed UC. & Lumi EB. Effects of Some Physicochemical Parameters on Mosquito Larvae abundance and Composition in Abandoned Road Construction Sites in Jos Metropolis, Plateau State, Nigeria - Entomological Society of Nigeria annual meeting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. Oral Presentation.
Professional Service
Reviewing
- Functional Ecology
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Evolutionary Application
- Ecography
- Ecology and Evolution
Volunteer Activities
- Project lead of AFRICAN ECO-RESEARCH REPORTS for Eco Amet Solutions, Ghana. 1st February 2021 – 2023: Link
- Participated in the field sample collection in the desert for a project that seeks to understand the effect of habitat structure, food availability, and environmental breeding conditions on the population dynamics and eggshell traits of desert-dwelling lizards in the Inner Mongolian desert, China. 6th May 2021 – 30th July 2021.
- Assisted in collecting entomological data to assess ecological factors that affect biodiversity for the past 30 years in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. 1st April 2018 – 30th March 2019.
Professional Societies
- Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Society of Systematic Biologists
- British Ecological Society
- Entomological Society of Nigeria
