Dr Simon Evans

About me:

While I'm broadly interested in behavioural and evolutionary ecology, much of my work focusses on quantitative genetics in wild populations. I’ve used animal models to infer evolution processes in avian study populations (and also for people in the Swiss canton of Glarus, using church records spanning four centuries). I am increasingly interested in how the summary overview presented by a ‘classical’ quantitative genetics study can be expanded, for example by considering the spatiotemporal dynamics of heritable effects, the impact of the social environment, and whether it is possible to better align empirical and theoretical perspectives of fitness by extending our cradle-to-grave perspective of the lifespan to include prenatality.

2022 Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

2011 PhD, University of Oxford

2006 MSc Biology (Integrative Bioscience), University of Oxford

2005 BA (hons), University of Cambridge

2022-present: Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Exeter

2021-2022: Lecturer, University of Exeter

2019-2021: Postdoctoral research associate, University of Exeter

2017-2018: Research Coordinator, Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford

2015-2017: Postdoc, University of Zurich

2013-2015: Forskare [Researcher], Uppsala University

2011-2013, Postdoctoral research assistant, Uppsala University