Jan Kreider

I studied biology, history and philosophy at Göttingen University in Germany, and subsequently did my PhD at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. During my PhD, I worked on the evolution of eusociality, the emergence and evolution of division of labour, and the evolution of ageing in social organisms. I am now an EMBO postdoctoral fellow in the Cornwallis and Feiner-Uller groups at Lund University. My aim is to understand how mechanisms that regulate development and behaviour have facilitated or hindered the evolution of cooperation and complex social life. I use a combination of theoretical modelling and empirical approaches, such as experimental evolution and comparative genomics and transcriptomics, to investigate the evolutionary transition from unicellular to multicellular life in green algae.