Dr. Daniel Becker is a wildlife disease ecologist at Indiana University Bloomington whose research focuses on ecoimmunology, viral ecology, and zoonotic disease risk at the human–wildlife interface. He has authored 131 peer-reviewed publications, accumulating approximately 3,850 citations with an h-index of 33, reflecting sustained scholarly impact. His work integrates field ecology, genomics, proteomics, and comparative analyses to understand viral diversity, host immune defenses, and epidemic potential across wildlife taxa, particularly bats and other mammals. Dr. Becker has published extensively in leading journals such as Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Scientific Data, and One Health. He is a highly collaborative scientist, having worked with more than 2,000 co-authors globally, and has contributed to six awarded research grants. His research informs biodiversity conservation, wildlife health surveillance, and global preparedness for emerging infectious diseases.