After a PhD and postdoc at the University of Bern in Switzerland, Joana came to the UK with a St John's College research fellowship. She then also acquired a Branco Weiss Fellowship that she currently holds at the Zoology Department. In 2022 she started her own group in the Tree of Life Programme of the Wellcome Sanger Institute where she holds a Royal Society research fellowship and a group leader position.
Joana has given supervisions and lectures for the Zoology Department at the University of Cambridge and has devised and taught speciation genomics courses, providing open access course materials (https://speciationgenomics.github.io or https://github.com/rapidspeciation/biodiversity_genomics_course).
Research interests - Joana is Group Leader at the Tree of Life Programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and a Branco Weiss Fellow at the Zoology Department of the University of Cambridge. Their team works on evolutionary genomics, the ecology and evolution of adaptive radiation, and on hybridisation. Joana's main study systems are Lake Victoria cichlid fishes and Heliconius and ithomiine butterflies.
Further information
https://joanameier.ch/
http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/joana-meier
https://github.com/joanam
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