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Matheus Januario
Hello and welcome to my website. I am a eco-evolutionary biologist investigating biodiversity dynamics and the evolution of complexity. In order to do that, I weave together diverse strands of evidence—fossils, global wildlife surveys, and the tree of life—using cutting-edge tools from ecology, evolution, and data science.
I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Global Change Biology, and affiliated to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Paleontology of the University of Michigan.
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News
- [May 2026] Recent recordings — Watch my talk at the Mayr Simposium in May 2026.
- [May 2026]Recent recordings — Watch my talk at the Budding speciation Simposium in May 2026.
- [Apr 2026]Recent awards — I received the 2026 T. H. Huxley Award for evolution education resources from the society for the Study of Evolution
- [Feb 2026] New paper published in the Journal of Open Source Education: evolved: open software for teaching evolutionary biology through virtual inquiries. https://jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/jose.00300.pdf
Highlights
Check my paper on metapopulation-level persistence and the bridge between micro- and macroevolution, out in Ecology Letters
Check my paper on The evolution of the intensity of sexual selection, out in The American Naturalist