Hi there! I’m John Nguyen, a PhD candidate in Dr. Adam Stuckert's lab at the University of Houston. I earned my B.A. in Environmental Biology from Columbia University ('23) during which I studied amphibian biodiversity and disease ecology with Dr. Rayna Bell at the California Academy of Sciences.

I am interested in the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain phenotypic diversity in amphibians and reptiles. For my PhD., I’m investigating the ecology and evolution of pigmentation in caecilians—a major tetrapod group that remains largely unexplored in this context.

As a first-generation student and queer aSEAn-American, I’m also passionate advocate of diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice, particularly in nature-oriented fields. Outside of science, I'm somewhat of an artist-musician-science communicator!