Maya Zomer

Maya Zomer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment at UC Berkeley. As a plant ecologist, Maya focuses on the intersection of post-fire recovery and climate change, contributing to the National Park Service Climate Change Decision Support project.

Maya brings expertise in post-fire regeneration in Mediterranean Basin shrublands under global change, as well as in fire impacts in Northern Andean páramo ecosystems. Her research has spanned plant physiology and community ecology, with an emphasis on intraspecific trait variability along climate gradients to understand species' ability to adap to environmental change.

She holds a PhD in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Valencia, Spain, along with postgraduate degrees in Ecology (PGDip and MPhil) from the University of East Anglia and the University of Plymouth, UK, and a bachelor’s degree in International Development from the University of Sussex, UK.