Postdoctoral researcher. I am an Evolutionary Ecologist. My work has focused predominantly on the interactions between parents and offspring, and especially on the causes and consequence of variation in parental investment (mainly in birds!). I am also generally interested in understanding and developing statistical methodology, and in open research. Currently I am working on understanding the concept of fitness and how to measure it. Fitness is a key concept that links several fields, but definitions vary widely. My work investigates the consequences of using different fitness metrics for evolutionary prediction and how this is affected by interactions between parents and offspring. I did my undergraduate and masters at the University of Sheffield, before moving to Zurich to do my PhD. I was then awarded an early career fellowship to work at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. I have since completed postdocs at the University of of Edinburgh and NTNU in Trondheim, before returning to Edinburgh. https://joelpick.github.io/ This article was published on 2024-06-17
