Alex 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. His research has been featured in Nature, Current Biology and New Phytologist. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife Sarah and daughter Clara. His debut book Flora: How Plants Changed the Word, and the World Changed Plants will be published by Bloomsbury (UK) and Basic (US).