Research area Zoology

Zoology covers a wide range of topics around animal biology - from genomics to ecosystems, nerve cells to behavior and evolution to conservation.

Zoology is the branch of biology that studies animals, both living and extinct. Our research includes studies of animal biology, such as behaviour, conservation, ecology, evolution, genomics and paleobiology.

 

Animal Behaviour

Animal behaviour is the study of how and why animals act the way they do. By examining behaviour in both natural and experimental settings, researchers uncover how behaviour evolves and is shaped ecological and evolutionary processes.

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Animal Conservation

Animal conservation studies populations to understand the causes of decline, erosion of genetic diversity and adaptive capacity, and extinction risk, generating knowledge that supports the long-term persistence and evolution of species.

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Animal Ecology

Animal ecologists study how animals interact with other organisms and their environment, aiming to understand how these interactions influence evolutionary change as well as the distribution and abundance of species.

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Animal Evolution

Animal evolution investigates the origins, diversification, and adaptation of animals across geological time, linking genomic mechanisms to macroevolutionary patterns across the tree of life.

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Animal Genomics

Animal genomics explores the genetic blueprints of life. Researchers use population, comparative, and functional tools to study how DNA drives biodiversity and evolution, investigating genetic variation both within and across species.

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Animal Palaeobiology

Recovering animal genomes from fossils and museum specimens makes it possible to reconstruct the evolutionary history of animals, and thus to investigate how climate change, hybridization and natural selection have shaped biodiversity through time.

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