PhD position available!
An SNSF funded PhD position on ‘Individual-level causes and population-level consequences of variation in fitness in an alpine rodent’. More info here (pdf)
In the media
Our work on the Aldabra giant tortoises in the SonntagsZeitung.
New publication
A Technical Comment, published in Science.
brief cv
2011 - Present: Research Associate (Oberassistent), Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (IEU), University of Zurich
2008 - 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (IEU), University of Zurich
2006 - 2008: Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2001 - 2005: Ph.D., Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) / Utrecht University, The Netherlands
2000: MSc., Wageningen University, The Netherlands
1995 - 1999: BSc., Wageningen University, The Netherlands
A more detailed CV can be downloaded here (pdf)
where to find me
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Zürich, Irchel
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zürich
Switzerland
building 13 - floor J - room 38b
Tel: +41 (0)44 635 49 73
Fax: +41 (0)44 635 68 18
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