Moe Moe Aung joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Texas Tech University in April of this year (2024). She was a professor at the Zoology Department of Mandalay University, Myanmar. She worked on bat ecology and diversity in Myanmar with her colleagues and students, regional and international experts, and published findings in local and international research journals. She was awarded a visiting fellowship from the Institute of International Education-Scholar Rescue Fund (IIE-SRF) in 2022. However, some hard circumstances prevented her from traveling abroad. She arrived in April 2024 and has been working as a research fellow in the Kingston lab. She has been writing an updated review of Myanmar bats, as it has been nearly 25 years since Bates et al. 2000 reviewed the country’s bat fauna and reported 88 species. Since then, intensive surveys of bats have been conducted in Myanmar, resulting in some new species and many new records for the country, making a review timely.

She works on her research writing at the lab, the TTU library, or in comfortable places on the TTU campus. She has also been making the most of TTU’s professional development opportunities, taking online courses and attending on-campus symposia, trainings, and seminars. In her leisure time she likes to walk around the TTU campus and Lubbock neighborhoods.