A conservation biologist, Roman has worked on projects that have examined the relationship of biodiversity and cattle well-being as a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil and the connection between biodiversity and human disease ecology as a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently a McCurdy Visiting Scholar at Duke University. He is the PI, along with co-PIs Alvez and Barlow, on a UVM REACH grant: