I am hoping to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2027. Please contact me if you are interested in joining the lab! (Please do not use ChatGPT or any other LLM to compose your email. I get a lot of emails from prospective students that all read the same. I am looking for graduate students who are creative, curious, and genuinely interested in phylogenetics and computational evolutionary biology, so it is less likely that I will connect to your message if it is generic and lacks specific details about why you're interested in our lab.)
I am looking for independent and creative students broadly interested in theoretical evolutionary biology and phylogenetics. Work in my lab is exclusively computational, but I do not expect incoming graduate students to be expert computer programmers (though that doesn't hurt). When I started my PhD, I had never even considered learning how to program, so I firmly believe that such skills can be gained as part of your training. Thus, I expect that any incoming student will be very keen to learn how to program (e.g., in C/C++, python, or Java) and make statistical evolutionary biology part of their research.
Although my lab is entirely computational (i.e., "dry"), I am happy to advise students who are also interested in conducing empirical research in addition to computational work. However, I will only be a co-advisor for students planning to do "wet-lab" work and, if this matches your interests, I encourage you to also contact one of my excellent colleagues in EEOB to discuss the possibility of working with them, too.