David M Post

David M. Post is the Vice President (Academic Affairs), Dean of Faculty, and Visiting Wong Ngit Liong Professor at Yale-NUS College. Prof Post oversees all academic programming within the College with a key focus on sustaining their curriculum, enabling faculty and student research, and encouraging student and faculty development. His priorities include maintaining excellence in teaching and research, supporting faculty mentoring, and developing areas of distinction among the divisions and majors. He believes strongly in a liberal arts and sciences education and is dedicated to creating a community of scholars that support life-long learning and engagement among the faculty, students, staff, and alumni of Yale-NUS College.

Prof Post earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and his PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. He conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. He joined the faculty of Yale University in 2002 where he is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He served as the Director of Graduate Studies (2010-2013), Chair of the University Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct (2014-2018), and Chair of the Head of College review committee for Timothy Dwight College. Prof Post served on the Executive Committee for the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and faculty advisory committees including those for the Environmental Studies major, Yale Institute for Biosphere Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Diversity and Faculty Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Prof Post studies complex food web structure and dynamics, interactions between contemporary evolution and ecology, conservation and management of aquatic resources, climate change, and the ways that animal movement link ecosystems. He has made fundamental contributions to the use of stable isotopes across ecology and evolutionary biology. He has active research grants supporting projects in lakes and streams in Connecticut, USA, and in the Mara River basin in Kenya.

Prof Post is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected Member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering. He won the 2002 Raymond L. Lindeman Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and the 2003 IRPE Prize in limnetic ecology. He served on the editorial boards of Ecology Letters and Oecologia.