Research Interests
- Molecular Ecology of aquatic organisms
- Life history evolution, focusing on responses to global change
- Population genetics and phylogeography of groundwater species
- Cryptic species and interspecific hybridization
- Experimental evolution
Teaching
- Biology
- Molecular Ecology
- Evolution and Genetics
- Phylogenetic and population genetic analyses
Academic History
- Professor for Molecular Ecology (since 2009)
- Guest researcher at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (Bik-F) and LOEWE-Zentrum Translational biodiversity genomics (TBG), Frankfurt am Main, Germany (since 2014)
- Habilitation in Zoology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2005)
- Associate Professor (C1) at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2000-2009)
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Netherlands Institute of Ecology and University of Amsterdam (1997-1999)
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Guelph University, Canada (1997)
- PhD at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (1997)
- Dipl. Biol. at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (1992)
- Study of Biology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (1985-1992)
Functions and Honours
- Dean of the faculty Natur- und Umweltwissenschaften at the University of Koblenz-Landau (since 2016)
- Discipline leader Biology, University of Koblenz-Landau (2009-2015)
- Editor for Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2007-2008)
- Organizer of the first International symposium on Hybridization on animals - extent processes and evolutionary impact (2006)
- Ph.D. thesis award by Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Limnology and Oceanography (1999)
- Postdoctoral fellowship at Guelph University, Canada (1997)
- Postdoctoral fellowship granted by NWO-SLW (1996–1997)
Publications and Grants
Link for all publications of our working group
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Publons
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