Lukas Keller
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Research interests
Evolutionary ecology, population and quantitative genetics, conservation biology
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Education and professional positions
| 2018 - present | Full Professor in Animal Evolutionary Biology, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2009 - 2018 | Associate Professor in Animal Evolutionary Biology, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2008 - present | Director, Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2003 - 2009 | Assistant Professor in Animal Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Museum, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2000 - 2003 | Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Division of Environmental and Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1997 - 2001 | Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA |
| 1997 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| 1996 | Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology at University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| 1985 - 1991 | Studies in biology at Universities of Zurich and Basel, Switzerland |
Selected publications
See full publication list on Google Scholar.
- Gehr B., Bonnot NC., Heurich M., Cagnacci F., Ciuti S., Hewison AJM., Gaillard J-M., Ranc N., Premier J., Vogt K., Hofer E., Ryser A., Vimercati E., Keller L. (2020). Stay home, stay safe ‐ site familiarity reduces predation risk in a large herbivore in two contrasting study sites. Journal of Animal Ecology:Epub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13202
- Grossen C., Guillaume F., Keller LF., Croll D. (2020). Purging of highly deleterious mutations through severe bottlenecks in Alpine ibex. Nature Communications, 11:1001. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14803-1
- Bozzuto C., Biebach I., Muff S., Ives AR., Keller LF. (2019). Inbreeding reduces long-term growth of Alpine ibex populations. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 3(9):1359-1364. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-019-0968-1
- Nietlisbach P., Muff S., Reid JM., Whitlock MC., Keller LF. (2019). Nonequivalent lethal equivalents: Models and inbreeding metrics for unbiased estimation of inbreeding load. Evolutionary Applications, 12(2):266-279. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12713
- Ponzi E., Keller LF., Bonnet T., Muff S. (2018). Heritability, selection, and the response to selection in the presence of phenotypic measurement error: Effects, cures, and the role of repeated measurements. Evolution, 72(10):1992-2004. DOI: 10.1111/evo.13573
