Present address

 

 

Biodiversity Research Centre,

Ecology and Biogeography Unit

Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)

Croix du Sud 4, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

melanie_ri_gibbs(at)yahoo.co.uk

 

Research Interests

 

I am an evolutionary ecologist with interests in behaviour, physiology and quantitative genetics. Using the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria) and other insect model systems, my research focuses on how trade-offs influence life history evolution.