ECR Spotlight – Alexander Hansson

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Alexander Hansson is an author on ‘ Sex and early-life conditions shape telomere dynamics in an ectotherm’, published in JEB. Alexander conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Mats Olsson's lab at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Erik Wapstra's lab at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has a particular interest in the effects of early-life conditions on telomere dynamics and life history traits in ectotherms.