Solomon Maerowitz-McMahan

Solomon is a current PhD candidate at the Hawkesbury Institute of the Environment at Western Sydney University supervised by Jeff Powell, Adam Frew, and Rachael Nolan.

Previously, he completed a MSc in Plant Science from Wageningen University in 2022 and BSc from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Cum Laude in 2018. Between his MSc and BSc, he spent two years workings as a research assistant for different field projects in Trinidad & Tobago, Palmyra Atoll (US territory), and Ecuador. 

His research focuses on the impact of fire on fungal ecology, with a specific interest in how mycorrhizal fungal traits can be used to help understand the effect of fire in Australia.