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My research interests are at the moment focused on how genetic variation, population structure and population size change over time, especially in the context of changes in climate during the Late Pleistocene (i.e. the last ice age).
I currently work as an assistant professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, where I lead the ancient DNA & population genetics research group. At the moment, we are working on several projects on different vertebrate animals, for example lemmings, mammoths, cave lions and ptarmigan, using ancient DNA technology to access genetic information from fossils.
I have previously worked as a postdoc at Centro Mixto UCM-ISCIII in Madrid, mainly with genetic analysis of neanderthals and historical samples from the Iberian lynx. Following the year in Madrid, I worked as a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London, where I worked with ancient DNA analysis on the woolly mammoth.
My background is in ecology and population genetics, and my PhD thesis was on the population structure and conservation genetics in the arctic fox. I have also been working with how to use molecular species identification methods as tools in ecological research, both on foxes and raptors.
Contact details:
Love Dalén
Department of Molecular Systematics
Swedish Museum of Natural History
Email: Love.Dalen@nrm.se
Phone: +46 (0) 8 5195 4281