Dr. Sonya Clegg
Dr. Sonya Clegg
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology
University of Oxford, Department of Zoology
Sonya Clegg is an evolutionary ecologist who studies biodiversity at a range of scales, from macroecological perspectives to genomic variation within populations. She has a long-running interest in the direction and rate of evolutionary responses to novel environments, and in the relative importance of biotic and abiotic drivers of these changes.
Her primary study systems are island-colonising birds that often display repeatable patterns of evolution. She has focused on birds of southwest Pacific islands to understand how different microevolutionary processes have influenced their genetic and phenotypic divergence.
She received her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2000, and held postdoctoral and fellowship positions at the University of San Francisco and Imperial College London, and a lectureship at Griffith University Australia, before moving to the University of Oxford where she is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology.
