Tim Barraclough

Professor Tim Barraclough is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park) at Imperial College London’s Faculty of Natural Sciences. His affiliations include the Centre for Translational Nutrition and Food Research, DoLS emeritus and visiting staff, Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet, and Microbiome Network. His research focuses on evolutionary mechanisms underlying species diversity, speciation, and adaptive divergence, employing theoretical, genomic, experimental, and field-based approaches across diverse organisms.

Research interests include:

• Theory of species origins and evolutionary dynamics
• Statistical methods for diversification analysis
• Evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers
• Microbial community dynamics

No specific articles or awards are listed in the provided text. His lab’s work emphasizes evolutionary processes in microbes and asexual organisms. Affiliations with multiple interdisciplinary centers highlight his collaborative research scope.