Manuel is a curator at the Natural History Museum of Bern and lecturer at University of Bern, Switzerland. His main interest is in studying how biodiversity evolves and is maintained through time. To this end, his research focuses on speciation, phylogeography, biogeography, macroevolution and phylogeny of birds, mainly from the old world based on an integrative approach. Additionally, he has a strong interest in the systematics and taxonomy of different Palearctic bird groups. Scientific collections form the basis of much of his research.

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