Christopher Whelan

Christopher Whelan is an Adjunct Research Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. His research integrates ecology, evolutionary biology, ornithology, and oncology, with a focus on eco-evolutionary processes in cancer, avian top-down effects on insect communities, and conservation biology. Recent publications include work on the hallmarks of cancer as eco-evolutionary processes, microbiome analyses in species conservation, and UV-driven clonal dynamics in tumor initiation. He collaborates extensively across institutions in the US, Canada, Europe, India, and Kenya, including Moffitt Cancer Center, Lund University, and ETH Zurich.