Dr. David Goldstein

Dr. David Goldstein is Principal Investigator of the LEADER Consortium.  Dr. Goldstein is Professor of Biological Sciences at Wright State University.   He has served as Chair of that department since 2002. 

As Chair, Dr. Goldstein oversees a department with approximately 25 faculty, 50 M.S. and Ph.D. students, and more than 800 undergraduate majors.  Dr. Goldstein has hired more than half of current departmental faculty, and in the process has substantially increased the representation of women in the department.   In addition to the ADVANCE program, Dr. Goldstein’s involvement with diversity initiatives has included several grant-funded efforts to support under-represented students in the sciences.

Dr. Goldstein received the B.S. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from UCLA.  He subsequently completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Physiology at the University of Arizona prior to joining the faculty at Wright State.  Dr. Goldstein’s research focuses on comparative animal physiology, particularly mechanisms of water and solute regulation by vertebrates exposed to various environmental challenges.  He serves on the steering committee (recently as Chair) of the Comparative and Evolutionary Physiology Section of the American Physiological Society.  Most of Dr. Goldstein’s research support has come from the National Science Foundation, with additional support from the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and others.