About

I’m an Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. At the Cleveland Clinic, I’m affiliated with the Theory Division at the Lerner Research Institute.

I’m also an Affiliated Researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. 

I’m the author of  The Gene’s-Eye View of Evolution (Oxford University Press 2021; paperback 2023), a book on the gene’s-eye view evolution, also known as selfish gene theory. With Manus Patten, I’m the editor of Paradox of the Organism: Adaptation and Internal Conflict, which will be published by Harvard University Press in 2025.

Previously, I was a Wenner-Gren Fellow and I spent the first part of the fellowship at the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, hosted by David Haig, and the second as an independent researcher at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University.

After receiving my doctorate, I was a postdoc in Andy Clark‘s lab in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, funded by the Sweden-America Foundation. 

My PhD was on transposable element and genome size evolution with Stephen Wright at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Throughout my time at U of T I was a Junior Fellow at Massey College. Before that I read biology at the University of Edinburgh.

I can be reached at agrenj[at]ccf.org