Hi! My name is Moritz Lürig and I’m a new postdoc in the Svensson lab.
I am an evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in the forces that shape phenotypic evolution, including species interactions, phenotypic plasticity and developmental effects.
Funded by two fellowships for the next three years, I will be investigating the adaptive landscape of sexual polymorphisms and sexual conflict in odonates (damselflies and dragonflies). For my research I am using high throughput computer vision to collect high dimensional phenotypic and to trace causality behind phenotypic variation within a phenomics framework.
Before coming to Lund I did a short term postdoc in Ole Seehausen’s lab at Eawag Kastanienbaum, where I supported investigations of the evolutionary past of Lake Victoria Cichlids using computer vision.
I did my PhD with Blake Matthews at Eawag Kastanienbaum and Jukka Jokela at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, where I conducted a series of experiments to explore the role of different types of species interactions within different levels of ecological organization and across a range of ecological contexts.
I am looking forward to interacting with you all, scientifically and personally – I’m typically up for a chat, beers, or a soccer match!
