Dr Candice Owen is a Lecturer at the Department of Zoology and Entomology at Rhodes University in South Africa. She teaches first-year undergraduate cell biology, second-year undergraduate entomology and BSc(Hons) climate change courses.
She completed her PhD at Rhodes University in 2016. Dr Owen followed it with two years as a postdoctoral fellow looking at the link between thermal tolerance and respiratory rates.
She is also a Researcher associated with the Centre for Biological Control. Her main research body looks at the interaction between thermal physiology and metabolism. Dr Owen hopes that by exploring the link between the two, and how they change with each other, she can show how climate change could be expected to affect insects in the future.
