Katja Seltmann is the Director of the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. The center's mission is to preserve and enhance our natural heritage through leading biodiversity research, conservation and ecological restoration, including stewardship of campus lands, organismal biology and the preservation of natural history collections. Her research focuses on biodiversity informatics, the data science behind digitized natural history collections. Seltmann is particularly passionate about insect biodiversity, exploring conservation, evolutionary trends and the intersection of insects with media arts. Her work primarily centers on Hymenoptera, including bees and wasps.