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Bruno Fonseca Simoes is a Lecturer in Animal Biology at the University of Plymouth's School of Biological and Marine Sciences, part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. His research focuses on evolutionary biology, genomics, sensory biology, and neurobiology, with a specialization in herpetology. He actively contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through his work.
Teaching responsibilities include leading the Methods in Biology (BIOL234) and Advanced Bioinformatics & Phylogenetics (BIOL324) modules. He also contributes to courses in zoology, ecology, comparative zoology, and research supervision.
Current research supervision involves PhD students (Matthew Ford, Marylette Roa, Isaac Rosetto) and Research Masters students (Owen Head, Isobel Sleep, Thomas Woods, Cameron Tyler), exploring topics such as skink vision evolution, squamate microbiome diversity, sea snake evolution, and phylogenomics of West African baboons.
No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided materials. His work emphasizes interdisciplinary research at the intersection of ecology, genomics, and evolutionary mechanisms.
