Sonal Singhal

Sonal Singhal is an Assistant Professor at California State University—Dominguez Hills. Her research integrates evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenomics to address species delimitation, speciation, and biodiversity across squamate reptiles and birds. Recent work includes phylogenomic reassessments of Australia’s Sphenomorphini skinks, hybrid zone analyses in fence lizards using coalescent-based introgression estimates, and contributions to genomic perspectives on species boundaries. She has published in Science and Science Advances on snake macroevolutionary singularity and bird diversification following the end-Cretaceous extinction. She received NSF Collaborative Research funding (2020) for species delimitation in North American lizards.