My lab combines expertise from chemistry, biology, and geology to bridge the ‘Molecular Gap’ between Life past and present, ultimately aiming to elucidate the drivers of macroevolution (innovation, [pre-]adaptation, extinction) currently concealed within the geological record: we apply experimental, empirical, and theoretical approaches to track the alterations of informative biomacromolecules through time and space, in order to develop phylogenetic and physiological biosignatures that can be integrated across modern and extinct life forms – generating new primary data that allow us to fill the blank pages in the history of Life! We target the most critical intervals in Life’s evolutionary history to gather mechanistic insights that can be translated into models predicting the long-term effects of global change on modern biodiversity.

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