Kay Lucek

Parcours/Biographie

8. 2022 – 7. 2027   SNSF Eccellenza Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)

   University of Neuchâtel

8. 2016 – 7. 2022   Oberassistent

Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland

2. 2015 – 7. 2016   Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

12. 2013 –1. 2015   Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, EAWAG, Switzerland

2013   PhD in Ecology and Evolution

Division of Aquatic Ecology, University of Bern, Switzerland & Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, EAWAG, Switzerland


Publications

Cornet C, Mora P, Augustijnen H, Nguyen P, Escudero M, Lucek K. Holocentricrepeat landscapes: from microevolutionary patterns to macroevolutionary associations with karyotype evolution. Molecular Ecology.

Lucek K, Giménez MD, Joron M, Rafajlović M, Searle JB, Walden N, Westram AM, Faria R. The impact of chromosomal rearrangements in speciation: from micro- to macroevolution. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology.

Jospin A, Chittaro Y, Bolt D, Demergès D, Gurcel K, Hensle J, Sanchez A, Praz C*, Lucek K* (2023). Genomic evidence for three distinct species in the Erebia manto complex in Central Europe (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) (2023). Conservation Genetics.

Augustijnen H, Patsiou T, Lucek K (2022). Secondary contact rather than coexistence - Erebia butterflies in the Alps. Evolution.

Lucek K, Augustijnen H, Escudero M (2022). A holocentric twist to chromosomal speciation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

de Vos JM, Augustijnen H, Bätscher L, Lucek K (2020). Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.