Andreas Leidolf

Biography

Andreas (Andy) Leidolf is the Associate Director of the Utah Forest Restoration Institute. Prior to his current appointment, Andy served as Assistant Director and Project Administrator of iUTAH EPSCoR, a 6-year, $24M research, training, education, and outreach program funded under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation to provide a secure water future for the state of Utah, and involving over 800 participants, eleven institutions of higher education, and over 100 partner institutions and organizations, including K-12, museums and other non-profits, state and federal agencies, and private industry; and Coordinator of the Utah State University Honors Program. In what little free time is not occupied by his family (including his beloved canine companion, Marshall, Prince of Labrador), Andy consults in the field of scientific association management, serving as Executive Director of the Society for Freshwater Science since 2017. To all of these endeavors, Andy brings over 30 years of experience in the conduct, transmission, and administration of ecological research. He holds a B.S. degree summa cum laude in Forestry/Wildlife Management from the School of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University, and a M.S. degree in Fisheries and Wildlife Ecology from the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Andy has extensive experience in scientific communication, collaboration, and community management, particularly with large, interdisciplinary, and cross-institutional research teams. He was an inaugural 2017 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Community Engagement Fellowship Program and a Visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement at AAAS.