Résumé: Ahrash N. Bissell

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Nationality

USA

Place of residence

USA

Qualifications

• BS in Biology, University of California, San Diego. Focus on Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution.
• Ph.D. in Biology, University of Oregon. Focus on Evolutionary Genetics.

Professional experience

2011-present
Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
Project Manager

2010-present
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Mozilla Foundation
Peer 2 Peer University
Consultant on Innovation in Education and Science

2007-2010
Creative Commons; San Francisco, CA
Executive Director, ccLearn

2006-2007
Duke University; Durham, NC.
Assistant Director, Academic Resource Center.

2006-2007
United InnoWorks Academy
National Director (prev) and Consultant, InnoWorks

2005-present
Alexandria Archive Institute
Field Sciences Research Consultant

2003-2005
Duke University (Duke); Durham, NC.
Postdoctoral Researcher and Program Coordinator, Academic Resource Center.

2002-2007
Duke University; Durham, NC.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (and Instructor), Department of Biology.

2002
Vance-Granville Community College (VGCC); Henderson, NC.
Biology Instructor, at Low Security Correctional Institution in Butner, NC.

2001-2004
University of Oregon (UO); Eugene, OR.
Summer session instructor

1996-2001
University of Oregon; Eugene, OR.
Doctoral student, Section of Ecology and Evolution. Degree awarded: Sep, 2001.
Dissertation title: “Population differences and behavior in lizards: on the road to speciation?”

1994-1996
San Diego State University; San Diego, CA.
Research Assistant: Wildlife field study coordinator.

1990-1994
University of California, San Diego (UCSD); La Jolla, CA.
BS in Biology with a focus on Ecology, Behavior and Evolution.

1994
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Student Researcher: Tropical biology research program through UC system.

1992-1994
UCSD
Research Assistant: Plant genetics, hybridization and life-history variation in rice and oaks.

1991
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Berkeley, CA.
Student Researcher: Drosophila genetics and protein chemistry.

Other roles and relevant experience

• Co-founder of the Consortium for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CoSTL) at Duke University.
• Open-access digital archive and interdisciplinary research consultant for the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Durham, NC.