Scott A. Taylor is an associate professor at the University of Colorado, where he teaches topics such as hybridization, speciation, evolutionary ecology, and population genomics within different species of birds.
[1] Prior to achieving this position, his Ph.D. at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada consisted of applying genomics to natural hybrid zones to study the architecture of reproductive isolation.
Such data is relevant to climate change, evolution, and varying species distributions.
[1] His 2019 speech at the Story Collider Event at Evolution highlights the parallels between coming out as gay not only as an adult but also as a scientist.
In addition to speaking at the 2019 Story Collider Event, Taylor was also a recipient of the Young Investigator prize under the American Ornithological Society.