Shu Xie

Shu Xie is a Guest Researcher at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, affiliated with the Etienne group specializing in Theoretical and Evolutionary Community Ecology. Their ongoing PhD project (2018–present) at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Netherlands) focuses on "The effect of traits on insular diversification", co-supervised by L. Valente.

Shu Xie's research lies at the intersection of

• Island Biogeography
• Phylogenetics
• Speciation Modeling
• Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)
• DAISIE Framework Development

contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to biodiversity conservation.

Recent work emphasizes

• Computational methods for trait-dependent diversification
• ABC parameter inference in island phylogenetic models
• DAISIE software for R
• Evaluating colonization-extinction dynamics
• Identifying summary statistics for Bayesian model validation

with publications in journals like Evolution and Geoderma.