Sarah K. Winnicki

I am an evolutionary ecologist primarily interested in understanding animals as individuals (especially the development of individual variation), while simultaneously promoting community-level conservation. I currently explore bird populations across the state of Ohio (USA) as a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University's School of Environment and Natural Resources. 

I previously (2024) completed my PhD in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Program for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology in the labs of Dr. Mark Hauber and Dr. T.J. Benson. Our work investigates the impact of maternally-derived hormones on avian embryonic growth (see "Research" tab for more details).

In 2019 I defended my M.Sc. in Biology at Kansas State University in the lab of Dr. Alice Boyle. Check out our sparrow aggregation paper in the journal Ecology and keep an eye out for our work on the development of grassland songbirds!

Email: skwinnicki@gmail.com