Dr. Maria Zicos

Maria Zicos received her BSc (2014) and MSc (2015) from the University of St Andrews. She did her PhD at Queen Mary University of London and the London Natural History Museum through a London NERC DTP studentship (2017-2024). She is now working as an ERC-funded postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in London.

Maria’s main research interest involve population dynamics of mammals through time, in particular in the shifting environments of the Quaternary and in the present. She has a background of ecology, population modelling and ancient DNA. She uses ancient DNA methods on museum and archaeological specimens to reconstructs fluctuations of genetic diversity through time in mammal populations, either in the distant past or present with the aim to conduct conservation genomic analysis on species facing conservation threats today.