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I am interested in speciation and how within species variation can generate reproductive isolation and speciation. I am a PhD-student in the Erik Svensson lab since January 2007, and my current research focuses on the patterns and causes of morphological differentiation in subdivided populations of Skyros wall lizard, Podarcis gaigeae, and the consequences of this morphological differentiation in terms of sexual isolation. Future directions involve studies of gene flow between populations and how this is affected by putative asymmetries in sexual isolation. I am also involved in a study where we investigate if reproductive isolation between two demoiselle species of the genus Calopteryx involves learnt mate preferences.

Conservation biology, and how evolutionary biology can be applied in the field of conservation, is also one of my interests. During my Masters’ thesis, a Minor Field Study founded by SIDA, I studied if there was a statistical basis for relocating the eggs of the leatherback turtle to enhance egg survival on a beach in Costa Rica under the supervision of Mats Björklund, Uppsala University.