We are delighted to welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Tim Waring, to the KLI.

Tim is an associate professor of applied cultural evolution at the University of Maine. He studies how human cultural change can determine social and environmental outcomes and drive long-term human evolution. His work ranges from theoretical model development and fundamental research to applied science, and from individual behavioral choices to the evolutionary futures of Homo sapiens. He is driven by a fundamental question: how do human groups solve collective problems? He uses this question to support three distinct research programs in sustainability, organizational change, and human evolution.

Tim will be a Visiting Fellow at the KLI from March 21 to April 3, 2026. His KLI project is titled Developing a Research Agenda on the Human Evolutionary Transition in Inheritance and Individuality (ETII).

Tim will also give a talk titled "The Science of an Evolutionary Transition in Humans" at a KLI Colloquium on March 26, 2026.

We wish Tim an inspiring stay at the KLI and in Austria.