Suzanne Alonzo is professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on how social or behavioural interactions affect evolutionary dynamics. She uses phenotypic and genetic modelling approaches to examine how interactions within and between the sexes affect the evolution and expression of reproductive behaviours. Her experimental systems include the ocellated wrasse in Corsica, the tessellated darter in Connecticut, and mosquitofish in California.
John Fitzpatrick is professor at the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University. Combining experimental work on tropical freshwater fishes and phylogenetic comparative approaches, he studies reproductive behaviours to understand how sexual selection affects evolution. He is particularly interested in pre-mating competition, mate choice (both before and after mating), sperm competition, trade-offs among sexually selected traits, and co-evolutionary dynamics between the sexes.
Chiara Benvenuto is reader at the University of Salford in the UK. Her research connects theoretical concepts with field observations, manipulative experiments, laboratory analyses, modelling, phylogenetic methods, and molecular techniques. She specialises on the evolution of animal mating systems and strategies, with a particular focus on sequential hermaphroditism (sex change), the relationship between sex allocation and sex ratios, and general patterns of sex determination mechanisms and intersexual conflicts.