Lis Castillo Nelis is a Managing Consultant in ecology at Ramboll. She has 16 years of biodiversity, invasive species, environmental science, and project management experience, with particular expertise in analysis of the effects of anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystems. She applies her expertise in litigation support, remediation, ecological risk assessments, human health risk assessments, lender due diligence, analysis for sensitive species, and restoration of natural systems. Lis has worked on disturbances from oil spills, invasive species, erosion, and climate change. Lis graduated from the University of Chicago Committee on Evolutionary Biology in May of 2008; Dr. Timothy Wootton was her advisor.  Lis’ graduate research explored the interaction between grassland plants and invasive rabbits on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile.  Lis conducted a large scale field experiment and combined it with mathematical modeling of plant communities.  From 2009 – 2012, she did a National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford.  After her postdoc, Lis worked with a one-person consulting company and lectured at Stanford.  In 2014, she took a consulting job at Exponent, and in 2017 Lis took a new consulting job at Ramboll where she is currently a Managing Consultant. Lis lives with her husband and two school-aged sons in Seattle.