Amy Zanne is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist. Her research explores how plants interact with microbes and insects, including termites, to impact the storage and release of carbon under global change. She also studies the macroecology and macroevolution of plants, microbes and termites. She is joining Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies as a Senior Scientist and is currently a Professor and Aresty Chair in Tropical Ecology at the University of Miami. Before Miami, she was a professor at George Washington University and University of Missouri, St. Louis. She was a postdoctoral scholar on a joint fellowship at Duke University, University of California Berkeley, and Macquarie University in Australia, and before that a postdoctoral scholar at Tufts University. She completed her MSc and PhD at University of Florida and BA at Dartmouth College.