Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology Lab
Welcome to the website of the Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology lab of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne.
Our lab is broadly interested in the evolutionary origin and maintenance of trait diversity within populations. We develop and analyse mathematical models to generate general and testable predictions about the ecological conditions that favour differences between individuals and about the genetic basis of such differences.
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Second Edition of the Summer School
We were delighted to host the second edition of the summer school in modelling for evolutionary biology. 29 PhD students and Post-Docs from across the world participated in a week-lon...
Sep 05, 2026
Group attended MMEE 2026 in Cork, Ireland
Our group attended Mathematical Modelling in Ecology and Evolution 2026 hosted at the University College Cork in Ireland.
Jul 29, 2026
Vitor successfully defended his PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Vitor Sudbrack on the successful public defense of his PhD on April 16th. His thesis and presentation were titled “Models on the evolution of genetic architectu...
May 06, 2026
Summer school in Modelling Evolutionary processes 2025
We were delighted to welcome 25 international PhD students and postdocs to Lausanne for an intensive week of teaching and projects in evolutionary modelling.
Sep 24, 2025
Recent Publications
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The evolutionary interplay between self-fertilisation and sex allocation in flowering plants
By Thomas Lesaffre, John Pannell and Charles Mullon -
The effect of supergene evolution on the structure and stability of the G-matrix
By Vitor Sudbrack and Charles Mullon -
The evolution of family reputation extends indirect reciprocity
By Miguel Dos Santos, Hisashi Ohtsuki, and Charles Mullon -
The evolution of condition-dependent self-fertilisation
By Thomas Lesaffre, John Pannell and Charles Mullon -
Sexually antagonistic selection: a review of the theory and its implications
By Ewan Flintham*, Thomas Lesaffre*, Sarah Otto and Charles Mullon
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