I have just returned to work as a researcher at the Evolutionary Ecology unit after post doctoral studies at the University of Oslo. I am an evolutionary biologist/genomicist with a broad interest in speciation and how new diversity within and between species arises. I also find the role of biogeography for the faith of diversity interesting, and have been working extensively on island biogeography. I did my PhD here at the Department of Biology, working on population divergence and island biogeography of an island endemic lizard species, and my post doctoral work has been on variation and constraints on diversity arising from hybridization, with a focus on genomics.
I am currently starting up a study system on host plant driven speciation in the fly Tephritis conura infesting different thistle species. I am interested in for instance how host shifts and host expansions affect variation at the phenotypic and genomic level, and how associations between genomically unlinked phenotypic characters arise.
