Welcome to the Simões Lab!

The history of life on Earth is marked by complex interactions between species genomes and phenotypes across constantly changing environments. Reconstructing these deep time evolutionary patterns and processes is key to understand the construction of both past and modern biological diversity. Our lab in the Dpt. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University investigates these phenomena by integrating genomic and phenotypic data from living and fossil species to infer the origin of major groups of vertebrates (with stronger focus in reptiles), their evolutionary relationships, key innovations during major evolutionary transitions, and how these were impacted by climate change across broad taxonomic and time scales

Join us!

We are currently accepting applications for undergraduate & graduate students and postdocs!

Undergraduate students: The Simoes Lab welcomes undergraduate students at all stages of their college program and zero research experience is required. If you have an interest in studying organismal evolution across broad taxonomic and temporal scales, building evolutionary trees, comparative anatomy, phylogenomics, or you’re just a big fan of reptiles (living or extinct), there is a place for you here! Feel free to send an email to Tiago Simões or just feel free to knock on my office door anytime.

Graduate students: We are constantly looking for highly motivated and creative students to join our group! If you’re interested in joining the lab, please send your CV and a one-page description of your research interests and past research experience to Tiago Simões by e-mail. Please also check our departmental requirements and the deadline for applications to our graduate program through the EEB’s website here.

Postdocs: If you have research interests in alignment with our research program, or original research ideas you would like to discuss for postdoctoral projects, please reach out to o Tiago Simões by e-mail including your CV, a one-page description of your research interests and past research experience to date, and (if applicable) a brief description of your project idea.