Loeske Kruuk

Kruuk is a leading population geneticist and evolutionary ecologist who uses long-term studies of animal populations to study natural and sexual selection and the evolution of life history and reproductive traits. Her pioneering work on red deer and Soay sheep helped establish the animal model approach to heritability estimation from pedigrees, and her papers on these systems have been cited more than 17,000 times. Her most recent work has expanded to Australian fairy wrens, mosquitofish, geckos, and the development of new ways to measure phenotypic plasticity, in order to explore how populations are adapting to climate change.