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Two new papers out

I am very happy to have recently had two new papers published. The first paper was based on a student research project that I supervised in Oxford. Undergraduate student Louis Bell-Roberts did some great work on the evolution of insect

admin May 31, 2019June 1, 2019 Uncategorized Read more

Lecture in Leiden – Deep Evolutionary Drivers of Cooperation (Loss)

Two days ago I gave a lecture to students and staff at the University of Leiden and Naturalis Biodiversity Centre Leiden. The lecture, on the Deep Evolutionary Drivers of Cooperation (Loss), was followed by a very enjoyable discussion with Leiden’s MSc students

admin May 19, 2018June 20, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Workshop on ‘Evolving Utilities’ coming up end May

With collaborators in the Departments of Zoology, Economics and the Blavatnik School of Government I am leading a Balliol Interdisciplinary Institut project on the use of evolutionary approaches in behavioural economics. Can evolutionary biology help explain why humans don’t (always) act as homo

admin May 1, 2018June 8, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Paper on the evolutionary breakdown of cooperation online in PNAS

My paper on the evolutionary breakdown of mutualistic cooperation between plants and soil fungi (AM fungi) has today been published in PNAS. In it, we report that cooperation between plants and AM fungi breaks down when plants switch to interacting

admin April 30, 2018June 7, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

Winner of the 2018 Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Award

I am delighted to have been selected as one of the four recipients of the 2018 Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Awards. Each year, the Young Investigator Award is awarded to one or more early career researchers in Ecology and Evolution by

admin March 15, 2018May 9, 2018 Uncategorized Read more

sensiPhy software package published

Phylogenetic comparative methods have become one of the most important tools in evolutionary biology and ecology. Yet, accounting for uncertainty in phylogenies, species sampling our data can be difficult. Our new R-package tries to remedy that by providing a simple,

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New version of sensiPhy on CRAN

It’s been a while now since we first uploaded an initial version of sensiPhy, our R-package to perform sensitivity analyses in phylogenetic comparative methods, but we have now uploaded a full new version to CRAN! Thanks to the other great

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Recipient Royal Holland Society of Sciences Essay Prize

I am greatly honoured to be this year’s recipient of the annual Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) essay prize competition. Every year, KHMW with Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad organises an essay prize competition. This year’s was on the

admin October 19, 2017December 15, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Awarded best Dutch botanical PhD thesis prize

Last week, I was awarded the 2016 Hugo de Vries Prize (linked news item in Dutch only) for the best Dutch PhD thesis on a botanical subject. The prize, consisting of a certificate and a €5,000 sum, was awarded for my PhD thesis Plants,

admin April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 Uncategorized Read more

Elected Junior Research Fellow Balliol College Oxford

I am honoured and humbled to recently have been elected a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College Oxford. While my primary research will stay within the Department of Zoology, I am very much looking forward to getting to know the

admin October 10, 2016January 20, 2017 Uncategorized Read more
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