Jordi Paps, Ph.D.

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I am an evolutionary biologist interested on combining molecular phylogenetics and comparative genomics to understand major evolutionary transitions. In my PhD (Dr Marta Riutort’s lab) I worked on the molecular phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom. My first postdoc (Dr Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo’s team) focused on the relationships between animals and their close relatives. Later I moved to UK (Prof Peter W.H. Holland’s group), where I performed comparative genomic analyses of all animals to understand their origin, linking the evolution of genomes and morphology.

I joined the University of Essex as lecturer (2015), and later I moved to the University of Bristol (2019). Now I am interested in other major transitions, like the origin of plants, animal parasites, or the evolution of animals with bilateral symmetry. Other interests include zoology, genetics, molecular biology, evodevo, and biodiversity.