Plant Evolutionary Ecology Lab

People & contacts

Current group members

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Dr Maria Clara Castellanos

Senior Lecturer in Evolution, Behaviour and Environment

m.c.castellanos@sussex.ac.uk

 

 

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I am also the Editor-in-Chief of the diamond open access Journal of Pollination Ecology

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Andrés Romero-Bravo

PhD researcher

Plant plasticity and local adaptation to new pollinators

A.Romero-Bravo@sussex.ac.uk

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Julia Gegunde

PhD researcher based in CIDE, Valencia (Spain);
co-supervised with Juli Pausas

Ecology and evolution of post-fire flowering

julia.gegunde@ext.uv.es

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Rachael Davies

PhD researcher
based at the Millennium Seed Bank | Kew

Phylogenetic, ecological, and physiochemical correlates of seed lifespan

rmd20@sussex.ac.uk

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Lucy Unwin

SoCoBio PhD researcher

Understanding the genomics and ecology of floral nectar to enhance crop-pollinator interactions

L.Unwin@sussex.ac.uk

Current Masters Students

Mohammed Alajez

Nour Ghiti
 Past members
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Dr Yedra García

PhD (2019) based at CIDE in Valencia (Spain);
co-supervised with Juli Pausas

Plant-animal interactions in fire-prone ecosystems

Currently postdoctoral researcher at Lund University

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Dr Christopher Mackin

PhD (2022)

Floral evolution after range expansions

Currently Lecturer at the University of Essex

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Adrian Kaluka

Spring 2024 rotation student for UK Food Systems PhD

The ecology of urban agriculture: a review of the factors that affect successful pollination in small scale food production (rotation project)

A.Kaluka@sussex.ac.uk

Past Masters Students

 

Tara Jeffery

Ben Reason

Kaja Piekarska

Cheyenne Derwin

Oliver Dhakal

Tom Murphy

Students co-supervised with Kew´s Millenium Seed Bank:

Zoe Benefer

Jemma Galton

Lucy Unwin

Xiangyu Yu

Alexandra Arthur-Worsop