Julia Day
Julia has interests in evolutionary biology, systematics and biodiversity. Her early career was in the field of vertebrate palaeontology, and she later retrained in molecular biology. Her Ph.D. was joint with UCL and The Natural History Museum, London, where she remains a Scientific Associate. She has been awarded two independent fellowships from the EU and the Royal Society, and has previously worked at the University of Cambridge, Konstanz University and Imperial College, before re-joining UCL.
Julia is currently an Associate Editor for Evolution (2021-20) and a NERC Peer Review College member (2020-24). She is also external examiner for the University of Oxford (2021-24), University of Sheffield (2019-22) and Imperial College (2018-21).
Academic history
2021 Professor of Zoology, University College London
2015 Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, University College London
2007 Lecturer in Environmental Biology, University College London
2007-2008 Dorothy Hodgkins Royal Society Fellow, University College London
2004-2007 Dorothy Hodgkins Royal Society Fellow, Imperial College London
2002-2004 Marie Curie Individual Fellow, University of Konstanz, Germany
2000-2002 Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Education
2000 Ph.D. Zoology, University of London (University College London)
1995 B.Sc. Geology, University of Bristol
Contact
Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment
University College London
Darwin Building
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
