Greta Wakefield

An evolutionary biologist at a public research university, Greta Wakefield studies speciation and constructs phylogenetic trees using large genomic datasets. Her laboratory investigates the genetic mechanisms that drive lineage divergence across vertebrate populations. Before establishing her current research group, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship analyzing comparative sequence data. Wakefield received her bachelor’s degree in evolutionary biology from Montana State University and earned a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from Duke University.