Alex J. Maile

I study the evolutionary relationships and morphological diversity of fishes through natural history collections. My research combines comparative anatomy, CT imaging, fossils, and genomic data to examine how fish lineages diversified and how novel structures evolved.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas, based in the Ichthyology Division of the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum. Collections are both the foundation of my current work and the setting in which I am developing an independent research program in fish systematics and evolution.