Jamie C. Weir

Jamie Weir is an evolutionary and behavioural ecologist interested in the origins of biological diversity and its consequences in changing environments. His research focuses particularly on adaptive colouration and phenology in the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

In his most recent teaching post at the University of Edinburgh, Jamie provided statistical support to fourth year undergraduate students designing, conducting, and completing their honours research projects.

Jamie completed his PhD at Edinburgh's Institute for Ecology and Evolution, supervised by Ally Phillimore. He used large-scale experimental approaches to examine the consequences of phenological asynchrony in woodland caterpillar species. Prior to this work, he employed a combination of field experiments and phylogenetic comparative analyses to investigate the selective pressures exerted on insect colouration by bird predators.

Jamie is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a Member of the Royal Entomological Society.