Felipe Zapata
Co-director, Center for Tropical Research
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
My research examines the evolution, ecology, and conservation of biodiversity. More specifically, I aim to understand how environmental and ecological factors interact to shape organismal responses and evolutionary change at different phylogenetic, temporal, and spatial scales. To this end, I use interdisciplinary approaches to integrate from genes to clades using tools from field biology, genomics, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, population genetics, biogeography, museum science, ecophysiology, chemical ecology, and computational biology. My overarching goal is to study across levels of biological organization to address fundamental questions about the processes that generate diversity in nature and inform applied issues to preserve the environment.
