Tigga Kingston — PI of the lab, is originally from the UK. Her work focuses on bat conservation ecology in Southeast Asia.

Benneth Obitte is a PhD student from Nigeria. His research quantifies the extent of bat hunting, and the ecological and ecosystems consequences of hunting in SE Nigeria.

Isham Azhar is a PhD student from Malaysia. He is exploring the community processes driving the break up of bat assemblages along a habitat degradation gradient in Malaysia. 

Md Ashraf Ul Hasan is PhD student from Bangladesh. He will be exploring the species composition, diversity patterns and habitat interaction of bats in a fragmented landscape in Bangladesh.    

Abby Rutrough is a PhD student from the USA. She is interested in the spatial integration of human ecology and threats to bat diversity across scales. 

Touseef Ahmed is a PhD Student from Pakistan. He is studying the relationship between environmental extremes, land use, and zoonotic disease emergence.

Rahul De is a postdoc from India. He is working on integrating population genomics of insectivorous bats, molecular characterization of their diet, and gut microbiome across habitat degradation gradients in Malaysia.

Moe Moe Aung is a Visiting Fellow of the Institute of International Education–Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) and an Illinois Scholar at Risk (ISAR). She is currently writing about the impact of the military coup on biodiversity conservation in Myanmar.

Mary Heather Jingco is a PhD student from the Mariana Islands. She will be exploring the conservation ecology of the endangered bat species found within the Marianas.