Luis Valente

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 marine islands and continental biodiversity hotspots.

I am currently a Senior Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).

NEWS:

• New gallery with some fieldwork pictures - here.

• New paper in Nature, where we use a large global phylogenetic dataset of islands birds to test the theory of island biogeography.

• News and Views feature in Nature about our paper, written by Kostas Triantis and Tom Matthews.

• Follow me on Twitter! @evo_island

• DAISIE R package available online.

CONTACT EMAIL: luis.valente@naturalis.nl