Dr. Román Zapién-Campos

Following his BSc in Biotechnological Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Guanajuato, Mexico, Roman received his MRes in Biosciences from University College London after a dissertation on modeling de-novo design of mutualisms. From January 2018 until December 2021 Roman worked on his doctoral project in the Department of Evolutionary Theory at the MPI for Evolutionary Biology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Arne Traulsen and Dr. Michael Sieber. He was studying the eco-evolutionary dynamics of the holobiont (host + microbiota) using multiple theoretical approaches. Currently, Roman is a postdoc at the MPI Plön. He will move to London in 2023 for a new postdoc position at the UCL.