I am a Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at The Open University (UK).

My goal is to understand the patterns and processes of plant diversification and extinction on macroevolutionary timescales. I am focussed on flowering plants from tropical latitudes, and employ a combination of specimen-based observational data and novel computational morphometric methods.

I received a PhD from University College Dublin, spent a couple of years as a post-doc in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), and returned to the UK as a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Exeter. 

Email: Luke.Mander [at] Gmail [dot] com