Wenfei Tong

Dr. Wenfei Tong is a research associate at the department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and a faculty member at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She received a bachelor's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton, and a PhD in biology from Harvard. Her postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge focused on the evolution and genetics of brood parasitic birds - a subject she returns to in this book. At the University of Montana, she has developed...See more

Dr. Wenfei Tong is a research associate at the department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and a faculty member at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She received a bachelor's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton, and a PhD in biology from Harvard. Her postdoctoral research at the University of Cambridge focused on the evolution and genetics of brood parasitic birds - a subject she returns to in this book. At the University of Montana, she has developed citizen science monitoring for threatened grassland birds. Wenfei writes popular science articles for nature nonprofit organizations and contributes to international science journals. She is a guest lecturer for Lindblad National Geographic Expeditions and runs a nature tour company based in Montana. She lives in Missoula, Montana, USA. See less