I am a Juniorprofessor (Evolutionary and Ecological Data Science) at the University of Trier, Germany. My research focuses on understanding how evolutionary innovations and extreme adaptations arise, and how complex phenotypes are encoded and shaped at the genomic level. In particular, I am interested in the extent to which similar traits evolve through shared or… Continue reading Research

Trontelj, P., Zakšek, V., Palandačić, A., Recknagel, H., (2026) Budding speciation, mitochondrial capture and introgression between surface and cave lineages in the Asellus aquaticus species complex. Cladistics, early online. Balart-García, P., Bilandžija, H., Bista, I., Bizic, M., Campbell, M., Cappelletti, M., Cooper, S. J. B, Couton, M., Flot, J.-F., Guzik, M. T., Karwautz, C., Lueders, T., Mammola, S.,… Continue reading Publications