Giulio De Leo
King Center on Global Development
Professor of Oceans and of Earth System Science
Doerr School of Sustainability
Senior Fellow
Woods Institute for the Environment
Giulio De Leo is a theoretical ecologist and the scientific director of the Center for Disease Ecology, Health, and the Environment at Stanford. His research interests include the processes driving the dynamics of natural and harvested populations, as well as the application of this knowledge to practical management.
In recent years, Dr. De Leo has studied the resilience of natural and managed populations to anthropogenic stressors, environmental shocks, and climate change. He has been working on a number of theoretical and applied problems ranging from the conservation of the european eel, to the sustainable management of abalone fisheries, to the biocontrol of schistosomiasis in West Africa. He is also co-director of the Disease Ecology in a Changing Environment (DECO) initiative, and member of the strategic task of the Stanford Human and Planetary Health initiative.