Stefan Lüpold
Table of contents
Research interests
Sexual selection; reproductive physiology; gamete evolution; reproductive and life-history trade-offs; behavioural ecology; phylogenetic analyses; meta-analyses
CV
Education and professional positions
| 2018 - present | SNSF Professorship, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2015 - 2017 | Group Leader (SNSF Ambizione), University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2015 | Independent Research Fellow, University of Manchester, UK |
| 2014 - present | Associate Editor for BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| 2011 - 2015 | Research Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, USA |
| 2010 - 2013 | SNSF Postdoctoral research fellow, Syracuse University, USA |
| 2009 | Postdoctoral research assistant, University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2005 - 2009 | Ph.D., University of Sheffield, UK |
| 2002 - 2003 | M.Sc., University of Zurich, Switzerland |
Selected publications
See full publication list on Google Scholar.
- De Nardo AN, Biswas B, Perdigón Ferreira J, Meena A & Lüpold S. 2025. Socio-ecological context modulates significance of territorial contest competition in Drosophila prolongata. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292: 20242501. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2501
- Grueter CC & Lüpold S. 2024. The role of between-group signalling in the evolution of primate ornamentation. Evolution Letters 8: 927-935. DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrae045
- Mahdjoub H*, Khelifa R*, Roy J, Sbilordo SH, Zeender V, Perdigón Ferreira J, Gourgoulianni N & Lüpold S. 2023. Interplay between male quality and male-female compatibility in female choice across episodes of selection. Science Advances 9: eadf5559. (*shared first-authorship) DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf5559
- Liao WB., Jiang Y., Li DY., Jin L., Zhong MJ., Qi Y., Lüpold S*., Kotrschal A*. 2022 (*shared last authorship). Cognition contra camouflage: how the brain mediates predator-driven crypsis evolution. Science Advances 8: eabq1878. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq1878
- Lüpold S., Simmons LW., Grueter CC. (2019). Sexual ornaments but not weapons trade off against testes size in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 286(1900):20182542. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.2542
- Simmons LW., Lüpold S., Fitzpatrick JL. (2017). Evolutionary trade-off between secondary sexual traits and ejaculates. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32: 964-976. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.011
- Lüpold S., Manier MK., Puniamoorthy N., Schoff C., Starmer WT., Buckley Luepold SH., Belote JM., Pitnick S. (2016). How sexual selection can drive the evolution of costly sperm ornamentation. Nature 533: 535-538. DOI: 10.1038/nature18005
- Lüpold S., Tomkins JL., Simmons LW., Fitzpatrick JL. (2014). Female monopolization mediates the relationship between pre- and postcopulatory sexual traits. Nature Communications 5: 3184. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4184
- Lüpold S., Pitnick S., Berben KS., Blengini CS., Belote JM., Manier MK. (2013). Female mediation of competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110: 10693-10698. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300954110
- Lüpold S., Manier MK., Berben KS., Smith KJ., Daley BD., Buckley SH., Belote JM., Pitnick S. (2012). How multivariate ejaculate traits determine competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Biology 22: 1667-1672. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.059
