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Robert Lanfear grew up in England and holds a BSc with honors in Ecology, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, and a PhD from the University of Sussex, specializing in developmental biology. After a postdoctoral position focused on editing shrimp genomes at University College London, he moved to the Australian National University (ANU) in 2008 for a postdoc, where he remained for six years. He then took a permanent position as a Senior Lecturer in Genomics at Macquarie University in Sydney before returning to ANU in 2016. His research encompasses a variety of topics within molecular evolution, including somatic mutation, phylogenetics, comparative methods, and bioinformatics. Lanfear's work aims to deepen the understanding of molecular evolution, focusing on the mutation processes and their implications for species evolution and biodiversity. He actively develops software for phylogenetics, including major projects like PartitionFinder and RWTY. His programming expertise spans Python and R, and he enjoys open-source coding. Lanfear is committed to mentoring research students and collaborates extensively within the academic community to further evolutionary biology and genomics research.
Australian National University • Canberra, ACT, Australia
Focus on molecular evolution, genomics, and phylogenetic methods.
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