Eva Hernandez-Janer (Mann) is a doctoral student in the human evolutionary science program at Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology in New Jersey.

Her doctoral and Fulbright research explores the effects of peatland fires and forest/road edges on wild orangutan health and energetics. She measures these effects using stable isotope analysis on biological materials (non-invasively) combined with nutritional and behavioral data to identify long and short periods of nutritional stress in orangutans residing in the Tuanan Orangutan Field Station in Central Kalimantan, Borneo. With her collaborators at Universitas Nasional, Eva hopes her research will better understand how critically endangered Bornean orangutans respond to significant environmental changes, gaining insight into where to focus conservation initiatives for these wild primates and the forests they inhabit.

Eva received a double bachelor’s degree in anthropology and geological sciences from the University of Miami, Florida, and a master’s degree in anthropology/human skeletal biology from New York University.