Jane Waters

Jane Waters is a comparative physiologist with research expertise in metabolic scaling, collective behavior, insect respiration, entomology, and natural history. Her research discoveries have supported a model of colonies as physiological super-organisms and her transdisciplinary social insect research lab welcomes artists and writers in addition to scientists and naturalists. She was born in New York City, went to the Bronx High School of Science, graduated from The University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and earned a Ph. D. in biology at Arizona State University, advised by Jon Harrison and Jennifer Fewell. Her complexity science postdoc at Princeton University was co-advised by Simon Levin and Iain Couzin and included a field season working with ants in the Swiss Alps, tracking the coupling of ventilatory rhythms with social interactions. She also worked at Argonne National Laboratory and The Field Museum of Chicago prior to joining the faculty at Providence College.

Dr. Jane is a member of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) and the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI). Her research has been published in journals including Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The American Naturalist, Neuroscience Methods, and the Journal of Experimental Biology. She is active in the community, organizing with Jewish Voice for Peace and Food Not Bombs and having served on the boards of the Rhode Island Jewish Museum and the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.

Dr. Jane identifies as a transgender and non-binary individual and as a member of the LGBTQ community. She lives in Massachusetts and is a parent of two young and inquisitive children who love visiting campus, catching Pokemon, and collecting ants.

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