- Public lectures in UK, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Europe
- Invited Participant, The World Economic Forum
- Interviews with BBC Radio 3, 4, BBC Regional Radio, International press coverage
- Featured in New Scientist, Discovery, National Geographic
- TED Talk
Mark Pagel
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Professor
Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Director of the Evolution Laboratory
Areas of interest
- Evolution
- Computational biology
- Language evolution
- Phylogeny
- Markov chain Monte Carlo
Research centres and groups
International Collaborators
- Professor Richard Foster, Yale University
- Professor Russell Gray, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Dr Tanmoy Bhattacharya, The Santa Fe Institute and Los Alamos Laboratory, USA
- Dr Daniel Hrushka, University of Arizona
- Dr Chris Organ, University of Montana
National Collaborators
- Dr Mark Beaumont, University of Bristol
Research projects
- Funding from ERC and BBSRC
- Molecular phylogenetics and Bayesian Statistical methods for comparative data
- The evolution of human languages
- Human cultural and technological evolution
- Speciation
- Rate and mode of evolution
Background
Esteem Factors
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 2011
- Coordinator of European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award (£2 million)
- External Professor, the Santa Fe Institute, USA
- Plenary Speaker to Human Behaviour and Evolution Society meetings
Websites/blogs
New Scientist Article
Impact, Enterprise and Outreach