People

• Indrė Žliobaitė -- Group leader (Professor)

• Jeremias Glöggler -- PhD student

• Rebecca Muriuki -- PhD student

• Mikko Niemi -- PhD student

• Otto Oksanen -- PhD student

• Sania Zubaid -- PhD student

Alumni (recent)

• Michael Mechenich -- PhD student (defended in 2026)

• Donald Killian -- Postdoctoral Researcher (2025)

• Tegan Foister -- PhD student (defended in 2025)

• Abigail Parker -- Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2025)

• Riikka Korolainen -- MS student (completed in 2025)

• Citlali Trigos-Raczkowski -- MS student (completed in 2024)

• Alexis Rojas-Briceno -- Postdoctoral Researcher (2022-2023)

• Rita Beigaitė -- PhD student (defended in 2023)

• Otso Velhonoja -- MS student (completed in 2023)

• Ryoko Noda -- MS student (completed in 2022)

Open positions

Openings for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers arise periodically. Our group welcomes candidates with backgrounds in evolutionary biology, palaeontology, ecology, computer science, data science, or related fields.

Collaborations and environment

Our group works in close collaboration with researchers across evolutionary biology, ecology, computer science, and the humanities, both within the University of Helsinki and internationally. Many projects are explicitly interdisciplinary and combine empirical data with methodological development.

Further information

For publications related to our group’s research, see the Publications page or Google Scholar.
For official institutional information, see the University of Helsinki research group page.