Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, Department of Entomology

Dr. Mokkapati completed her PhD from Jagiellonian University in 2021. During her PhD, she studied the effects of pesticides and landscape structure on beneficial organisms, for which she developed population dynamics models for the carabid beetle, Bembidion lampros, and the solitary bee pollinator, Osmia bicornis. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Grozinger Lab at Pennsylvania State University. Her research centers around Pollinator Ecology and Evolution. At present, she is working on understanding mutualism in plant-pollinator systems. She uses an interdisciplinary approach that combines innovative computer vision methods with plant quantitative genetics and pollinator behavioral ecology.