Tiago Simões
Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Biodiversity and Ecology / Climate Science and Modeling / Earth History and Paleoclimate
What are the genomic, ecological, and phenotypic processes behind the major evolutionary transitions in the vertebrate tree of life?
My research interests include both theoretical and empirical approaches to investigate deep time problems in vertebrate macroevolution. By combining data from living and extinct species, as well as morphological and genomic data, we conduct phylogenomic studies and infer organismal rates of morphological and molecular evolution across scales. Further, we investigate the deep time evolutionary response of organismal evolution to climate change in the deep past combining paleoclimatic data with patterns and rates of lineage diversification.