Meet the Team

Dr. Williams joined the Mote team as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2020 shortly after finishing her Ph.D. at Northeastern University in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology. For her dissertation research, Dr. Williams used network science and modeling combined with fieldwork and physiological experiments to attack problems facing coral reefs from multiple angles. She studies the connections among polyps in a coral colony, the associations of coral species and their symbiotic algae and microbiome, and the spread of coral diseases - all under the lens of global climate change. At Mote, Dr. Williams will continue using innovative modeling and statistical analyses to study coral health and disease dynamics while advancing our understanding of coral reef resilience.