Rate My Professor David Armitage

David Armitage is an Assistant Professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), where he leads the Integrative Community Ecology Unit. He is an ecologist working at the interface of communities and ecosystems. He earned a BSc from the University of Michigan, an MSc in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida, and a PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining OIST, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Notre Dame and served as a Faculty Fellow at Rice University.

His research focuses on the ecology of plant-microbe interactions, species coexistence in variable environments, and linkages between communities and ecosystem processes. Armitage has published in journals including Ecology Letters, ISME Journal, Ecology, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B, with notable papers such as “Coexistence barriers confine the poleward range of a globally distributed plant” (2020) and “Linking the development and functioning of a carnivorous pitcher plant’s microbial digestive community” (2017). He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecology and teaches courses including Fundamentals of Ecology at OIST. He has received funding including JSPS Kakenhi grants and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.