Long term

I want to understand behavioural evolution by connecting the Tinbergens’s four questions.

Short-mid term

My projects so far stem from a big question of how behaviour diverges among populations and species. I address this by studying micro-evolution of seasonal migration in populations of blackcaps which exhibit a large heritable variation in migratory behaviour across populations from long-distance migrant to resident.

Population genomics

I use population genomics to understand population history of non-model organisms. Through this project, I became more interested in how evolution of recombination rates affects local genetic variation and population genetic inferences, and learned to think from the underlying gene genealogies. I work both on empirical analysis and population genetic simulation.

Epigenomics

I am interested in molecular regulations associated with behavioural variation in the brain at the level of cell types. To this end, I perform scATAC-seq on the hypothalamus of migratory and non-migratory blackcaps.