Professor Janette Boughman, PhD

Janette is a full Professor of Integrative Biology with over 30 years’ experience asking fundamental evolutionary questions about fish, bats, birds and people. She is a leading expert on speciation, the part of biology that seeks to understand how biodiversity is created and maintained, and studies how adaptation to novel environments contributes to speciation.

Janette’s Fulbright research focuses on the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain biodiversity, and how anthropogenic change undermines these processes. If we can protect those processes, we can help protect biodiversity itself.