Troy A. Roepke

Troy A. Roepke is a gay, genderqueer neuroendocrinologist. At Rutgers University, their lab studies the mechanisms through which oestrogens control metabolism, reproduction, stress, and behaviours and the impacts of adult and developmental exposures to endocrine disruptors on these functions. However, their undergraduate and graduate training was in marine biology/toxicology. Their change in career fields was due, in large part, to difficulty in securing postdoctoral training in a state that legally recognized their queer relationship. While being educated in mostly supportive environments, they also received their fair share of hostility and discrimination. These reasons are why they are an openly queer professor whose lab is supportive of all marginalized students and trainees, especially LGBTQ, at all levels of their studies.