Gijsbert Werner

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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,

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