People

Group members

Max Reuter

Professor of Evolutionary Genetics
email: m.reuter@ucl.ac.uk
website: UCL profile

  • PhD with Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne, 2003
  • Postdoc, UCL, 2004–2006
  • NERC fellowship, UCL, 2006–2009
  • Lecturer, then Reader, UCL, 2009–2020
  • Professor of Evolutionary Genetics, UCL, 2020–
  • Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2021–

Débora Brandt

BBSRC-funded postdoc, 2022–
email: d.brandt@ucl.ac.uk
website: UCL profile

  • Undergraduate degree and Masters in Biology, University of São Paulo, Brazil

  • PhD with Rasmus Nielsen, University of California at Berkley, USA

Avishikta Chakraborty

Leverhulme-funded postdoc, 2022–
email: avishikta.chakraborty@ucl.ac.uk
website: UCL profile

  • Integrated Masters in Biotechnology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India

  • PhD with Christen Mirth and Carla Sgrò, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Abhilesh Dhawanjewar

Leverhulme-funded postdoc, 2022–
email: a.dhawanjewar@ucl.ac.uk
website: UCL profile

  • Integrated Masters, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India

  • PhD with Kristi Montooth and Colin Meiklejohn, Universiy of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Co-supervised students

Baron Koylass

Role: PhD student 2024–
Co-supervisor: Matteo Fumagalli, QMUL

Owen Corbett

Role: PhD student 2019–
Co-supervisor: Seririan Sumner, UCL GEE

Alumni

Marion Bonneau

Leverhulme-funded postdoc 2021–2024, co-supervised with Kevin Fowler
Currently:

Enrique Rodriguez

BBSRC-funded postdoc 2019–2024, co-supervised with Nick Lane
Currently: Postdoc, UCL GEE

Carl Mackintosh

PhD student, co-supervised with Andrew Pomiankowski, 2019–2023
Currently: Postdoc with Denis Roze at the Station Biologique de Roscoff

Michael Jardine

PhD student, 2018–2022
Currently: Postdoc, University of Exeter

Pedram Samani

BBSRC-funded postdoc 2018–2021
Currently: Senior wet-lab manager, Broad Institute, Harvard, USA

Quentin Saintain

BBSRC-funded research technician, 2018–2021
Currently: PhD student with Snezhana Oliferenko, King’s College London

Benjamin Taylor

PhD student, co-supervised with Seririan Sumner, 2017–2021
Currently: Postdoc Brock Harpur at Purdue University

Florencia Camus

Marue Curie-, BBSRC- and Leverhulme-funded postdoc 2016–2021
Currently: NERC Independent Research Fellow, UCL GEE

Filip Ruzicka

PhD student, 2015–2019
Currently: Postdoctoral fellow at ISTA, Vienna, Austria

Tom Kay

Visiting PhD student (supervisor Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne), 2019
Currently: Postdoc with Daniel Kronauer, Rockefeller University

Émeline Favreau

PhD student, co-supervised with Yannick Würm, QMUL, 2016–2019
Currently: Bioinformatician, University of Cambridge

Andy Higgins

MPhil student, 2011–2018
Currently: School teacher

Mark Hill

PhD student, 2013–2017
Currently: Bioinformatician

Christos Andreadis, 2012–2013

NERC-funded postdoc
Currently: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford University

Sara Fuentes

NERC-funded lab manager, then postdoc, 2009–2013
Currently: Managing Editor, FEBS Open Bio

Benjamin Lange

Visiting PhD student (supervisor Ellen Decaestecker, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), 2012
Currently: Head of Platform Operations & Services, Siemens

Charles Mullon

PhD student, 2008–2012
Currently: Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne

Jack Hesketh

PhD student, 2008–2012
Currently: Developer at ipushpull, London

Julie Collet

NERC-funded postdoc, 2009–2011
Currently: Permanent researcher, INRAE, Tours, France

Collaborators

Aida Andrés, UCL

Tim Connallon, Monash University

Ted Morrow, Karlstad University

Ewan Flintham and Charles Mullon, University of Lausanne

Greg Walter, Monash University