Undergraduate students
Undergraduates are normally accepted into our group only if they have at least some computer programming experience, but feel free to contact us for advice while you go about getting such experience through a basic programming class. Undergraduates must be willing to commit to a minimum of 9 hours per week and more than a single semester: a larger commitment is preferred.
Graduate students
We are currently recruiting graduate students interested in any of our current areas of research, as well as graduate students whose own independent interests match well with the culture of the group. You can apply through the department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology here. You need to be accepted both by the department and by a faculty sponsor, so feel free to start a correspondence with me at any time. Alternatively, you can apply through a Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) either in Applied Math or Statistics. Another option for projects on human evolution and behavior is the graduate program in Ethology and Evolutionary Psychology.
Students in my lab are normally supported by TAships while they do rotations (EEB) or heavy coursework (Math/Statistics). After that, RA positions are sometimes available, depending on how well the lab’s funded research grants match a students’ research direction. An alternative source of funding for US citizens / permanent residents in the first two years is the genomics IGERT. One more option for US citizens and residents in years 2-3 is an NIH-funded training grant here on Computational and Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems.
Postdocs
No funded positions are currently available. Applications that do not clearly demonstrate familiarity with our research will not receive a response.
International applicants
We do not often accept postdocs or graduate students unless we are able to meet you in person. If you are unable to travel to the US for an interview for visa or other reasons, but are able to travel to Australia or Switzerland instead, I might be able to meet you there. In exceptional circumstances I may conduct interviews through a combination of email and phone, but it is generally more difficult to be admitted to the group in this way than it is via an in-person interview.