Hello everyone!
I’m extremely excited to join the Department of Biology as a new Associate Senior Lecturer. I’m based in the Aquatic Ecology unit because I will lead a research laboratory with fish. In addition, I hope to establish strong ties with the Evolutionary Ecology unit, since my research interests lie in the fields of evolutionary biology and evolutionary ecology as a whole.
My work at Lund University focuses on improving our understanding of how the environment influences contemporary evolution – the short-term evolutionary change that allows populations to adapt and persist. My goal is to help make predictions of microevolution in the wild more reliable. To date, predictions are often inaccurate, and recent work suggests that environmental variability is a major contributor to the predictive inaccuracy. In my predictions, I will thus explicitly account for environmental variability. To do so, I combine mathematical models with quantitative genetic methods, applied to Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata, small tropical freshwater fish) both in the laboratory and field.
I arrived in Lund two months ago but am originally from Switzerland. I received my PhD from ETH Zurich, studying mating-system evolution in hermaphroditic snails with Jukka Jokela. I then had a series of postdoctoral fellowships. For three years, I joined Tim Coulson’s lab at the University of Oxford, UK. I then returned to Switzerland, where I worked as a lecturer and Marie Curie postdoc at the University of Zurich, first with Hanna Kokko and then with Lukas Keller. Now I’m really looking forward to getting to know you all and learning what you do!
When I’m not at work, I’m with my husband and our two children, preferably at the beach building sand castles and collecting seashells. In the (admittedly mostly mythical) time I have for myself, I like reading novels, baking, and gardening.
