Erin Saupe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford. Her research interests include study of the origin, maintenance, and conservation of biological diversity, and the interactions between life and environments over geological time scales. She received her PhD from the University of Kansas in 2014, after which she joined Yale University as a Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) Postdoctoral Fellow and an EAR NSF Postdoctoral Fellow.