Paula Garcia-Galindo

Paula is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Fusco Lab at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Her research lies at the interface of theoretical evolution and ecology, with applications to molecular and microbial systems. Originally from Madrid, she completed a BSc in Physics at EPFL (Switzerland) and an MSc in Physics at Imperial College London.

During her PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge, her interests shifted toward biophysics and evolutionary biology. Her doctoral work focused on the evolution of RNA phenotypic diversity and plasticity, using the genotype–phenotype (GP) map—a computational framework that quantifies how genetic change translates to phenotypic change.

At the Cavendish Laboratory, her research explores the co-evolution between bacteria and their viruses (phage), developing theory informed by experimental questions. She is broadly interested in how phenotypic plasticity shapes and is caused by evolution.