Carol Lee is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is best known for promoting an evolutionary analysis of invasive species (Lee, 2002, Trends in Ecol. Evol.). Prof. Lee completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography at the University of Washington. She then conducted her postdoctoral work at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her work has focused on evolutionary responses to environmental change, including biological invasions, climate, and pollution. Her research has adopted a wide range of approaches, including comparative physiology and functional genomics. She is currently conducting research as part of Macron’s “Make Our Planet Great Again” program at the Université de Montpellier in France. Her current project focuses on rapid evolutionary and physiological responses of zooplankton populations to rapid alterations in salinity and temperature that are induced by global climate change.