Nadir Alvarez
SNF Professor

We investigate the genetic processes that occur following changes in a species’ distribution. Phylogeography has been our main research topic for the last ten years with a more recent focus on comparative phylogeography in plants and associated insects. We are now interested in understanding the extent to which the magnitude of a species range shift might influence dynamics of alleles in populations, as well as diversification processes.

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Mar 2013-
Swiss National Foundation (SNF) Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Mar 2010-Feb 2013
Research Associate (Swiss National Foundation Ambizione fellow) at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Oct 2005-Feb 2010
Junior Lecturer (Maître-Assistant) at the Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Jan 2005-Sep 2005
Postdoc at the Institute of Botany (Prof. Küpfer’s lab), University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Oct 2001-Dec 2004
PhD at the Centre for Evolutionary & Functional Ecology (Dr. Hossaert-McKey’s research group), University of Montpellier, France.

2001
MSc. (DEA) in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the University of Montpellier, France.