Incoming Postdoc - Welcome Dr. Chiew Li Yuen!

Here at the TEE Lab, we are extremely excited to welcome Dr. Chiew Li Yuen as our new post-doctoral fellow who will be studying the effects of riparian buffers on pests in oil palm and also exploring its benefits towards biodiversity.

Dr. Chiew Li Yuen

Li Yuen is a biological conservationist whose interest lies in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem ecology with a particular interest on invertebrates. Prior to this, she successfully completed her PhD in 2021 at the Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti of Malaysia, Sabah with the co-supervision of the TEE Lab and investigated the interaction networks between dung beetles and mammals across a land-use gradient in Sabah. She also studied the implications of forest disturbance and conversion to oil palm and silviculture plantations towards invertebrate-mediated ecosystem processes.

"The driving force of my research is a desire to work out how the ecosystem processes and functions are maintained and how their loss influence to overall ecosystem productivity. I am also interested in chemical ecology, particularly the chemically-mediated interactions between mammals and dung beetle feeding response." - Dr. Chiew Li Yuen

Welcome to the lab Li Yuen!!