Alexander Bowles

Dr Alex Bowles is a Glasstone Research Fellow in Plant Sciences and Extraordinary Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford. His research focuses on plants and their billion years of evolution, using both living and fossil specimens. He aims to understand how plant innovations originated millions of years ago, how they work today, and how they might be (mal)adaptive in the future.

Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Bristol and completed a PhD at the University of Essex studying the Major Transitions in the Plant Tree of Life.

Prior to his doctoral studies, he conducted research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Natural History Museum (London) and Imperial College London.