#  Sofia Schembari 

Graduate student

 

 

 



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Sofia Schembari completed her BA in Evolutionary Biology in 2019 at Columbia University, where she studied male responses to female sexual solicitations and female mate choice in blue monkeys. She has conducted field work in Kenya with blue monkeys and spent a year managing the Lomas Barbudal Capuchin Project in Costa Rica. Sofia joined the Pan Lab in Fall 2025. For her PhD, she plans to investigate female mate choice and reproductive strategies in bonobos at Kokolopori. Outside of research, Sofia has spent several years teaching middle school science in New York City, earning her Master’s degree in Teaching from New York University in 2021. Before starting at Harvard, she worked in the Education division at the American Museum of Natural History.