George P. Tiley

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Biography

I am an evolutionary biologist that primarily works on plant evolution and polyploidy. I am especially interested in grasses as a model for polyploid evolution because of their applications to agriculture and ecological resilience. I started as an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University in August of 2026. Prior to that, I was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and a postdoctoral scientist at Duke University. Most of my empirical work has been focused on Madagascar, where I apply evolutionary biology to pressing conservation issues about grassy ecosystems related to climate change resilience rangeland management. I am active in the botanical and evolutionary biology communities, having edited for Botanical Society of America and Society of Systematic Biologist journals. Most of my research questions are from an organismal perspective, but I am also enjoy developing tools teaching materials that remove computational barriers to biodiversity science.

Contact

The best way to contact me is directly via email: gptiley@ncsu.edu