Glenn Litsios

My research is a part of the SPEED (Spatially Explicit Evolution of Diversity) project. We seek to understand how the species niche has evolved and how the capacity for niche change might impact future patterns of species diversity in the face of ongoing climate change. In this context, my project consist of building a comparative phylogenetic framework that will be used to study the evolution of the ecological niche on a phylogeny. In parallel, I will construct a nuclear phylogenetic tree of the South-African grass-like family of the Restionaceae, on which my model will be applied.

I am also interested on how characters evolve on a phylogenetic branch, and how the branch length (mostly it's unit i.e. time or amount of molecular evolution) will impact on this evolution. I studied this topic during my master thesis while looking at how life-history trait such as generation time could affect ancestral states reconstruction on phylogenies.

Born August 5th 1984 in Geneva

2010-Present
PhD thesis in the lab of Nicolas Salamin, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

2008-2010
Master of Sciences in Biology, Evolution and Conservation at the University of Lausanne, under the supervision of Nicolas Salamin.

2004-2008
Bachelor of Science in biology at the University of Lausanne.