Nicolas Dussex PhD.

I am a geneticist working at the Swedish Museum History and I am part of the Department of Population Analysis and Monitoring. Overall, my research interests lie in field of conservation and evolution. I am particularly interested in the evolution of small populations, the genome-wide effects of population declines on population fitness and persistence and the adaptive responses of species to climate change. I obtained my PhD at the University of Otago where I worked on the population genetics of endemic New Zealand parrots. I subsequently joined the Swedish Museum of Natural history and Centre for Palaeogenetics (Stockholm University) to study the genomic consequences of population declines and the genomic basis of adaptation in  endangered and extinct species (e.g., Sumatran rhinoceros, kākāpō, Svalbard reindeer, woolly rhinoceros). I am experienced in using temporal genomics approaches, relying on a combination of modern, historical and ancient genomes as well as simulations (i.e., Slim) to study the evolution of populations in real time. I am also interested in developing comparative and ‘macrogenetics’ approaches to assess the impacts of human activities and climate change on whole ecosystems in a changing world.