Dino Martins, Research Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011
Entomology, coevolution, and tropical ecology
Email: stephen.baines@stonybrook.edu
Office: LS631
Phone: (631) 632-8700
Lab Website: East Africa Lab WebsiteResearch Summary:
Dr. Dino J. Martins is an entomologist and evolutionary biologist, he is a Research
Professor in Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University and Chair of the Insect
Committee of Nature Kenya, the East Africa Natural History Society. He previously
served as the Director of the Turkana Basin Institute (2022-2025) and as the Executive
Director of the Mpala Research Centre for seven years (2015- 2022). He holds a PhD
from Harvard University (2011), and a BA in Anthropology from Indiana University (1999).
Communicating science and celebrating biodiversity is one of Dr Martins passions and
he has authored the ‘Insects of East Africa’, ‘Butterflies of East Africa’ and ‘Our
Friends the Pollinators: A Handbook of Pollinator Diversity and Conservation in East
Africa’.
Dr Martins’s research is focused on coevolution and symbioses, the big picture of
biodiversity conservation and the natural history of invertebrates and plants.