The overarching aim of my research is to understand how the evolutionary processes shape the world around us. More specifically, I’m interested in how evolutionary forces, such as natural selection, drive the change at the levels of genes and genomes. I’ve been developing two main directions of research: (i) genome evolution (with the focus on evolution of sex chromosomes) and (ii) the speciation and adaptation processes in plants (in the wide sense – including phytoplankton, see below). Over the years these research directions have been funded grants from the BBSRC, NERC and the Leverhulme Trust.