Ken A. Thompson’s

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I am an evolutionary biologist whose research centres around the evolutionary ecology of hybrid organisms. I use a combination of theory, data synthesis, and experiments to work toward identifying general features about how selection acts on hybrids in relevant ecological contexts. The overarching goal of my research is to clarify the importance of ecology-based selection (i.e., ‘extrinsic’) selection against hybrids for speciation, and identify the genetic mechanisms through which it acts.

I am currently a Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellow at Stanford University where I am working with Molly Schumer and Moi Exponsito-Alonso. I completed my Ph.D. in 2021 at the University of British Columbia with Dolph Schluter. I did my M.Sc. at the University of Toronto with Marc Johnson and undergraduate research at the University of Guelph with Brian Husband and Hafiz Maherali.