Veronica Behrens

Veronica Behrens is a 5th year Developmental Biology PhD candidate in Stanford’s School of Medicine. She is fascinated by the amazing diversity of animal life on Earth and studies the genetic changes that underlie this amazing diversity. She is currently a member of David Kingsley’s lab and is working on projects investigating the genetics of human-chimp divergence, lizard limb length evolution, and stickleback fish bone microstructure evolution.

Veronica is passionate about teaching and mentoring, and she leads data science workshops, served as a teaching assistant, mentors a Stanford undergraduate researcher, served as a Program Leader for the Stanford Summer Research Program, and has led interactive genetics activities at The Tech Interactive museum.

In the future, Veronica hopes to be a professor at a teaching-focused institution. She earned a B.A. in Anthropology (Archeology) from Harvard and a M.S. in Human Genetics from the University of Michigan.