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Alex Widmer is a Full Professor of Plant Ecological Genetics at the Institute of Integrative Biology within the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. Born in Basel, Switzerland, he completed his studies in Biology at ETH Zurich in 1992 and earned his PhD from the same institution in 1996. He has an extensive background as a postdoctoral fellow at the Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zurich, and has also worked at Indiana University Bloomington, USA, and Université Paris-Sud, France. In 2003, he returned to Switzerland as a group leader at the Geobotanical Institute. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2005 and became a Full Professor in 2009. His research interests focus on evolutionary processes in plants, including the genetic basis of adaptation, evolutionary reproductive isolation, and ecological speciation. He emphasizes the links between ecological and evolutionary processes in the context of environmental change, utilizing population genomic and transcriptomic analyses alongside field and greenhouse experiments.
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