Curriculum Vitae
Maria Angeles Rodriguez de Cara
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Maria Angeles Rodriguez de Cara
Citation names
- R. de Cara, Maria Angeles
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 7D1B-2776-FFEB
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0377-9502
Telephones
- Mobile phone
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- (+34) 658340417 (Personal)
Knowledge fields
- Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Biodiversity Conservation
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2003/04/09
Concluded
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Fisica de Materiales (Doctor)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
"Métodos estadísticos en ecología : colonialidad y aprendizaje en aves
" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1997
Concluded
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Fisica de Materiales (Licence)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
"Métodos estadísticos en ecología : colonialidad y aprendizaje en aves
" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/05 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologias Agrárias e Agro-Alimentares, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal | ||
| 2017/01/01 - 2018/02/28 | Researcher (Research) | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France |
| Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, France | ||
| 2013/07/01 - 2016/12/31 | Researcher (Research) | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France |
| Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France | ||
| 2010/04 - 2013/05/31 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Spain |
| 2003/11/01 - 2007/08 | Postdoc (Research) | The University of Edinburgh Institute of Evolutionary Biology, United Kingdom |
| 1998 - 2003 | Research Trainee (Research) | Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), Spain |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 - Current | Genome and Rumen Characterization of Native Portuguese Domestic Sheep
Post-doc
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2003 - Current | Modelos de materiales y nanoestructuras con electrones fuertemente correlacionados
MAT2002-04095-C02-01
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
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Gobierno de España
Concluded
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| 2003 - Current | Influence of dispersal on population structure
Post-doc Fellow
Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
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Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte
Cancelled
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| 1998/01 - Current | Fractals Structures and Self-Organization
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
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Community Research and Development Information Programme
Concluded
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| 2017/01/01 - 2018/02/28 | Origines des innovations evolutives et hybridation: HybEvol.
Researcher
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
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| 2015/07/01 - 2016/12/31 | Evaluating mechanisms of genetic adaptation to rapid environmental changes: agriculture and the human model: AGRHUM
Researcher
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
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Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
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| 2013 - 2015 | Infe´rence des processus de se´lection naturelle a` partir des grands jeux de donne´es de polymorphisme ge´ne´tique
Researcher
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Agence nationale de la recherche
Concluded
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| 2014/02 - 2014/05 | Maintaining fitness and diversity using genomic measures of coancestry
Supervisor
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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European Science Foundation
Concluded
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| 2010 - 2013 | Gestión y análisis de la diversidad en poblaciones estructuradas en los ámbitos de la conservación de recursos genéticos
CGL2009-13278-C02-02
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Spain
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Gobierno de España
Concluded
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| 2012 - 2012 | Application of differentiation and linkage disequilibrium based methods to detect the footprint of selection on next-generation
sequence data
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Research Fellow
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
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European Science Foundation
Concluded
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| 2011 - 2011 | An analytical model of speciation by drift in structured populations
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European Science Foundation |
| 2003/11 - 2007/08 | Theoretical analysis of speciation: a general framework.
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
The University of Edinburgh Institute of Evolutionary Biology, United Kingdom
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Natural Environment Research Council
Concluded
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| 2000 - 2001 | Population dynamics of avian colonial behaviour
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PhD Student Fellow
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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British Council Spain
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2021/01 | Avoiding ascertainment bias using haplotype-based methods | 54th Population Genetics Group Meeting
University of Liverpool (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/11 | Targets of selection and the evolution of a butterfly mimicry supergene | Approche Interdisciplinaire de l'Evolution Moléculaire 2017
GDR Approche Interdisciplinaire de l'Evolution Moléculaire (Lyon, France)
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| 2017/10 | Targets of selection and the evolution of a butterfly mimicry supergene | AdaLep congress
CNRS Montpellier (Montpellier, France)
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| 2017/07 | Detecting selection with haplotype-base methods: power and pitfalls | Invited seminar at Max Planck Institute
Frank Chan (Tuebingen, Germany)
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| 2017/07 | Targets of selection and the evolution of a butterfly mimicry supergene | ESEB 2017
(Groeningen, Netherlands)
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| 2016/12 | Power of and caution with haplotype-based methods to infer selection | Evolmol seminar
Evolmol series organisers (Paris, France)
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| 2016/07 | Testing the role of selection and demography in driving a rapid postglacial radiation in the songbird genus Junco | SMBE 2016
(Gold Coast, Australia)
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| 2015/02 | Use of genomic data in population management and its consequences for conservation and selection programmes | Invited seminar at INRA Castanet
Andres Legarra (Toulouse, France)
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| 2015 | Inference of selection with haplotype-based methods: benchmarking and application to Heliconius butterflies | Evolmol seminar
Evolmol series organisers (Paris, France)
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| 2015 | Detecting selection with haplotype-based methods: benchmarking and application to tropical butterflies | Seminar series Museo Nacional Ciencias Naturales de Madrid
Marta Barluenga (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2015 | “Detecting selection with haplotype-based methods: benchmarking and application to tropical butterflies” | Invited seminar at the University of Zurich
Frederique Guillaume (Zurich, Switzerland)
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| 2015 | Detecting selection with haplotype-based methods: benchmarking and application to tropical butterflies | ESEB 2015
Santiago Gonzalez Martinez (Lausanne, Switzerland)
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| 2014/10 | Inference of selection using extended haplotype methods on polygenic traits”. | Seminario de genética de poblaciones y evolución 2014
(Granada, Spain)
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| 2014 | Inference of selection using extended haplotype methods on polygenic traits”. | SMBE 2014
(San Jose de Puerto Rico, United States)
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| 2013 | Maintaining fitness and diversity in conservation programmes | Evolmol seminar
Evolmol series organisers (Paris, France)
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| 2013 | Purging inbreeding depression in conservation programmes | Seminarios del departamento de mejora genética animal
(Madrid, Spain)
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| 2013 | Maintaining fitness and diversity in conservation programmes” | ESEB 2013
(Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2013 | Using genomic tools to maintain fitness and diversity in conservation programmes | AIDA 2013
(Zaragoza, Spain)
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| 2012 | Purging inbreeding depression with optimal contributions and inbred matings | Seminar series Anthropologie genetique at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Frederique Austerlitz (Paris, France)
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| 2011 | Molecular coancestry vs. genealogical coancestry in the maintenance of genetic diversity | Seminarios del departamento de mejora genética animal, INIA Madrid
(Madrid, Spain)
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| 2011 | Molecular information vs. genealogical information in population management | AIDA 2011
(Zaragoza, Spain)
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| 2010 | Evolution of assortment and strong reproductive isolation | Seminarios Centro Investigacion Forestal, INIA Madrid
Santiago Gonzalez Martinez (CIFOR Madrid) (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2010 | Evolution of assortment | Seminarios del departamento de mejora genética animal
Jesús Fernández (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2006 | Speciation in bistable systems | Biostatistics Scotland Seminar Series
Glenn Marion (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2005/11 | The evolution of assortative mating | Seminar series Institute Evolutionary Biology
Chris Jiggins (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2005/07 | The evolution of assortative mating | ESEB 2005
European Society Evolutionary Biology (Krakow, Poland)
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| 2005 | The evolution of assortment | Speciation symposium at the Natural History Museum
Roger Butlin (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2005 | The evolution of assortment | Seminar series Complex (UCL Centre for Computation, Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology)
Jim Mallet (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2005 | Speciation in bistable systems | PopGroup 2005
Population Genetics Group (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2004/12 | The evolution of assortative mating | PopGroup 2004
Population Genetics Group (Reading, United Kingdom)
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| 2004 | Adaptive learning and coloniality in birds | Seminar series Institute Evolutionary Biology
Nick Barton (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2004 | Models of evolution of assortative mating | Durham symposium on statistical genetics
(Durham, United Kingdom)
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| 2003/09 | Speciation by pattern formation | Alcala Second International Conference on Mathematical Ecology
(Alcalá de Henares, Spain)
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| 2003/02 | Payne and Krakauer's model of sympatric speciation reevaluated | Fukuoka Workshop of Theoretical Biology: Coevolutionary Aspects in Ecology and Medicine
(Fukuoka, Japan)
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| 2003 | Sympatric speciation driven by sexual selection | Seminarios Instituto Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC)
(Madrid, Spain)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2017 - 2017 | Member of the organising committee of SMBE regional meeting in Lyon, Interdisciplinary Approaches for Molecular Evolution (2017/11)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
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GDR Approche Interdisciplinaire de l'Evolution Moléculaire, France |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2020/10/05 - 2020/10/09 | Poster presentation at Biodiversity Genomics
Conference
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Biodiversity Genomics 2020
Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
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| 2016/10 - 2016/10 | Participant at the Seminario de Genética de Poblaciones y Evolución 2016
Congress
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Seminario de genética de poblaciones y evolución 2016 |
| 2016 - 2016 | Poster at SMBE 2016: Benchmarking haplotype-based methods of selection
Conference
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SMBE 2016
Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, United States
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| 2015 - 2015 | Poster at SMBEBA 2015: Inferring selection with haplotype-based methods
Symposium
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SMBE Satellite meeting SMBEBA 2015 Investigating biological adaptation with NGS: data and models
Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, United States
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| 2014/11 - 2014/11 | SimBank: Planning population genetic simulations to test statistical genetics software
This catalysis group will plan the implementation of SimBank, a large, openly-available series of population genetic landscape
simulations, intended for easy testing and validation of statistical genetics methods and based on realistic scenarios from
natural populations across a range of taxa.
Invited participation (25 selected participants)
Other
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SimBank: Planning population genetic simulations to test statistical genetics software
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, United States
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| 2014 - 2014 | Poster: "Tracts of identity: length distribution, evolutionary history and applications"
Conference
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SMPGD 2014, Statistical Methods for Post-genomic data |
| 2013 - 2013 | Poster: Inference of selection using extended haplotype homozygosity
Conference
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ESEB 2013
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Netherlands
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| 2012 - 2012 | Poster: Use of purging for population management in conservation programmes
Conference
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International Conference Quantitative Genetics |
| 2011 - 2011 | Poster: Molecular information vs. genealogical information in population management
Conference
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ESEB 2011
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Netherlands
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| 2010 - 2010 | Participant at World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production
Congress
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World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production |
| 2010 - 2010 | Participant at Spanish meeting on animal breeding and genetics
Meeting
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Spanish meeting on animal breeding and genetics |
| 2007 - 2007 | Poster: The evolution of habitat preference
Conference
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ESEB 2007
European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Netherlands
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| 2007 - 2007 | Poster: The evolution of strong reproductive isolation
Symposium
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British Ecological Society Annual Symposium, Speciation and Ecology
British Ecological Society, United Kingdom
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| 2003 - 2003 | Participant at Population Genetics Group 2003
Meeting
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PopGroup 2003 |
| 2002 - 2002 | Poster: “Adaptive learning and coloniality in birds”
Conference
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European Conference Mathematical Theoretical Biology, Milan (Italy) |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 - Current | HFSP Grant reviewer
Evaluator
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Human Frontier Science Program, France | |
| 2015 - Current | University of Wageningen proposal reviewer
Evaluator
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Wageningen Universiteit Departement Dierwetenschappen, Netherlands | Wageningen Universiteit en Research |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 - Current | Samina Ahmed MSc | Samina Ahmed |
| 2004 - Current | Bart Niewenhuis' at Barton Lab | Bart Niewenhuis |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 - Current | Referee for BMC Genomics | BioMed Central Ltd, United Kingdom |
| 2020 - Current | Referee for Genes | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute AG, Switzerland |
| 2019 - Current | Referee for Animals | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute AG, Switzerland |
| 2018 - Current | Referee for Current Biology | |
| 2017 - Current | Referee for Genome Biology and Evolution | |
| 2016 - Current | Referee for Journal of Animal Science | |
| 2016 - Current | Referee for Journal of Evolutionary Biology | |
| 2016 - Current | Referee for Molecular Ecology | |
| 2015 - Current | Referee for Genetics Selection and Evolution | |
| 2015 - Current | Referee for Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics | |
| 2014 - Current | Referee for Evolutionary Applications | |
| 2014 - Current | Referee for Heredity | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Evolution | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Journal of Theoretical Biology | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Nature | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Physical Review E | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee Physical Review Letters | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Physical Review Letters | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Proceedings of the Royal Society B | |
| 2003 - Current | Referee for Theoretical Population Biology |