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 importance to agriculture and ecosystems. I started as an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University in August of 2025. Prior to that, I was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and a postdoctoral scientist at Duke University. I completed a PhD on computational phylogenetics at the University of Florida in 2017. Most of my empirical work has focused on Madagascar, where I apply evolutionary biology to conservation issues about grassy ecosystems and the genetics of climate change resilience. Most of my research questions are from an organismal perspective, but I also enjoy developing bioinformatic tools and teaching materials that remove computational barriers to biodiversity science. My lab currently works on phylogenetic networks, polyploid population genomics, and gene duplication and loss across plants.

Contact

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