Michael Matschiner

Academic interests

I am fascinated by biodiversity, and use my research to learn more about its origin and evolution. Much of my work therefore investigates speciation and the mechanisms driving it, particularly in rapidly diversifying groups of vertebrates. As hybridization has been identified as a mechanism with potentially large impact on speciation, my current research focuses on the occurrence of hybridization among vertebrate species and its link to speciation. I use genomics and bioinformatics to perform my studies.

Courses taught

While I currently do not teach BSc.- or MSc.-level courses at the University of Oslo, I teach the ForBio Phylogenomics course together with Torsten Struck.

I'm also co-directing and teaching in the biennial Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics of the international Evomics workshop series.

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