Luis Valente

  NEWS:
  • I was awarded an NWO Vidi Grant. Will be moving to The Netherlands next year to start my own research group. More info soon.
  • Check out our new short piece in Ecography, where we highlight the importance of using dated phylogenies to study islands, using Galápagos as an example.
  • New paper on equilibrium dynamics of Macaronesian birds in Current Biology.

I am an evolutionary biologist interested in the origins of biodiversity in a geographical context. I use modelling, phylogenetic and genomic approaches to reconstruct diversification dynamics over evolutionary time scales. I work on a variety of organisms (plants, birds and mammals) from oceanic islands and continental biodiversity hotspots.

I am currently a research associate at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG).