Jill Hamilton PhD, MSc, BSc

Dr. Jill Hamilton is Director of the Schatz Center for Tree Molecular Genetics and Ibberson Chair of Silviculture Research at Pennsylvania State University. She received her PhD at the University of British Columbia in Forestry studying adaptive introgression in forest trees, following which she completed post-docs at the University of Alberta and University of California-Davis to understand the genetic basis for adaptation across complex traits critical to forest and non-forest systems. Her research program integrates a foundation in evolutionary biology with conservation and restoration of natural and managed systems, leveraging population, landscape, and functional genomics alongside large-scale quantitative genetic experiments and modeling. 

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