Current PhD Projects
Citra Ariani
Supervisors: Gertjan van Dijk (NeuBio), Torsten Plosch (UMCG), Lidewij Schipper (Danone)
Long-term effects of early life nutritional PUFA status on energy balance regulation and cognitive performance in mice
Ondřej Belfín
Supervisors: Rampal Etienne (TRÊS), Thomas Lameris (ConsEco)
Communication of danger and cooperation among unrelated individuals
Meixu Chen
Supervisors: Theunis Piersma (ConsEco), José Alves (University of Aveiro), Mohamed Henriques Baldé (CF)
Learn to move - Development of flyway- and local-scale routines in long-lived shorebirds
Zeena D'Costa Rodríguez
Supervisors: Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN), Hans van Veen (GREEN)
Elucidating extreme flood tolerance - The art of doing nothing
Alice Dalla Pietà
Supervisors: Hannah Dugdale (BPE), David Richardson (UEA), Kees van Oers (ConsEco/NIOO)
Social ageing - Social environment effects on senescence
Maike Fallböhmer
Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (MarBio), Fleur Visser (UvA/NIOZ)
Wadden Sea Sounds - Acoustic presence and pressures of harbour porpoises in the Wadden Sea
Howard L. Frederick
Supervisors: Han Olff (ConsEco), Colin Beale (University of York)
Counting animals from above - From human eye to digital capture in wildlife monitoring
Anna Haider Rubio
Supervisors: Marjon de Vos (GREEN), Sebastian Lequime (GREEN)
Co-infections and the evolutionary dynamics of viral populations
Utku Z. Ortal
Supervisors: Peter Meerlo (NeuBio), Suzanne van der Veldt (NeuBio)
The biological basis of lifelong learning
Nishat Tasmin Khatun
Supervisors: Jean-Christophe Billeter (EvolGen), Elzemiek geuverink (EvolGen), Leo Beukeboom (EvolGen)
Harnessing sex determination variation in the production insect black soldier fly
Fabien N. Theunissen
Supervisors: Marcel Visser (NIOO/NeuBio), Natalie van Dis (NIOO), Maurijn van der Zee (Leiden University)
Thermal responses of overwintering insect eggs across orders under natural and experimental temperature regimes
Simon E.J. Vandepitte
Supervisors: Rampal Etienne (TRÊS), Ruth Howison (CFRL), Jelle Loonstra (Altenburg & Wymenga)
Tracking godwit chick survival within the dairy farming landscape
Lisanne R.J. van der Vijgh
Supervisors: Tjisse van der Heide (ConsEco/NIOZ), Tjeerd Bouma (UU/NIOZ), Ralph Temmink (UU)
Upscaling emergent trait-based mimics for coastal ecosystem restoration
Rijk van Ginkel
Supervisors: Christiaan Both (ConsEco), Thomas Lameris (ConsEco)
Interactions and niche partitioning in four sympatric reedbed passerines
Felix Wagner
Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (MarBio), Tjisse van der Heide (ConsEco), Melanie Bishop (Macquarie University)
Traits shaping shellfish reef resilience
Lilith N. Weimer
Supervisors: Sancia van der Meij (MarBio), Tom Oosting (ConsEco)
Using ecological genomics to study the effects of climate change and invasive species on blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) in the Wadden Sea
Roos C.I. Winters
Supervisors: Rampal Etienne (TRÊS), Thomas Lameris (ConsEco), Georgette Lagendijk (ConsEco), Ruth Howison (CFRL)
Diet, growth and development of black-tailed godwit chicks