Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell is a post-doctoral fellow in Stanford University's Department of Pediatrics and Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory as well as a research affiliate at the Center for Conservation Biology. After earning her undergraduate degree in Biology at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT, O'Connell-Rodwell obtained her Master's degree in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI before completing her Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of California, Davis's School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Population Health and Reproduction.