Matthew Schumm

I'm an Assistant Professor of Practice (non-tenured teaching faculty) at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (as of 8/2025). Previously, I was a PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in Dr. Dan Okamoto's lab and co-advised by Dr. Kim Hughes. I have a Masters in STEM Teaching from FSU's Office of STEM Teaching Activities. During grad school I was a Visiting Student Researcher at University of California, Berkeley, and I was a Ten-Week Graduate Student Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in DC. You can reach me at matthew.schumm@siu.edu. 

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Florida State University:

PhD (defended 7/2/2025, graduated 8/2/25), Biological Science (Ecology and Evolution), Fall 2019-Summer 2025

Visiting Student Researcher at University of California, Berkeley, Jan.-Apr. 2025

Master of Science, College STEM Teaching, awarded Spring 2024

The University of Chicago: 

BS, General Honors, Biology specializing in Ecology and Evolution, with minor in Statistics, 2019