Dr. Nicolas Dussex

Department of Natural History
NTNU University Museum
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Trondheim, Norway

Nicolas Dussex is a geneticist whose research interests lie in field of conservation and evolution. He is particularly interested in the evolution of small populations, the genome-wide effects of population declines on population persistence and the consequences of translocations on population fitness. Dussex obtained his PhD from the University of Otago, where he worked on endemic New Zealand parrots. He subsequently joined the Swedish Museum of Natural history and Centre for Palaeogenetics (Stockholm University) to focus on the genomics of endangered (e.g. Sumatran rhinoceros, kakapō) and extinct species (e.g. huia) as well as the genomic basis of adaptation (e.g. woolly rhinoceros). Dussex is experienced in using temporal genomics approaches, relying on a combination of modern, historical and ancient genomes to study the evolution of populations in real time. Moreover, he is particularly interested in developing comparative and ‘macrogenetics’ approaches to assess the human impacts on whole ecosystems.