About me
I am an experimental evolutionary ecologist interested in understanding how environmental context (e.g., food web structure, resource quality) modifies species interactions. Species interactions are among the most important forces structuring ecological communities and are often environment-dependent. Current approaches to predict changes in community structure over time often fail to reproduce observed dynamics, suggesting that ecologists are missing important biological mechanisms causing the patterns we see in nature. My research aims to quantify the ecological and evolutionary impact of environmental context on species interactions to better understand the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity and drive community dynamics.
My research combines lab-based experiments and mathematical models to quantify species interactions. I primarily work with aquatic microorganisms, specifically protists and microzooplankton, specializing in continuous culturing methods (i.e., chemostats).
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Biotic Responses to Environmental Change at the University of Zurich led by Dr. Frank Pennekamp.
In January 2025 I will join Dr. Emanuel Fronhofer’s group at the Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution (ISEM) of the CNRS and the University of Montpellier as an SNF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow.
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