People

Tenured staff	phone +31 (0)50 36 ...	room	email
Martijn Egas (associate professor)	+31 (0)6 5001 9888	5172.0578	contact
Yagmur Erten (assistant professor)		5172.0562	contact
Rampal Etienne (professor)	32230	5172.0580	contact
Ido Pen (associate professor)	38083	5172.0574	contact
Koen van Benthem (assistant professor)		5172.0668	contact
Sander van Doorn (associate professor)	38097	5172.0576	contact
Franjo Weissing (emeritus professor)			contact

Support staff	phone +31 (0)50 36 ...	room	email
Hana Masood (management/office assistant)	32040	5172.0568	contact
Hanno Hildenbrandt (scientific programmer)	32234	5172.0555a	contact
Thijs Janzen (scientific programmer)	32234	5172.0555a	contact

Temporary staff	chair group	phone +31 (0)50 36 ...	room	email
Luis Lima Valente (honorary professor, Naturalis)	Etienne			contact
Sandra van der Geer (affiliate assistant professor, Naturalis)	Etienne			contact

PhD students	chair group	phone +31 (0)50 36 ...	room	email
Ryan Brewer (2021)	Etienne			contact
Inès Daras (2019)	Weissing		5172.0581	contact
Lu Feng (2025)	Etienne, Lima Valente		5172.0581	contact
Koen Freerks (2024)	Egas, Nicolaus		5172.0581	contact
Sarah Henaut Jacobs (2024)	Etienne		5172.0581	contact
Corné Hoff (2024)	Etienne			contact
Alexandros Kaminas (2025)	Etienne, van Doorn		5172.0581	contact
Pinar Kohlmeier-Güler (2017)	Pen, Billeter, Groothuis		5171.0166	contact
Kevin Kort (2017)	van Doorn, Weissing			contact
Qing Lu (2025)	Etienne, Lima Valente		5172.0581	contact
Robin Mills (2014)	Hemelrijk			contact
Caroline Prauchner Silva (2020)	Etienne		5172.0547	contact
Miguel Puentes-Escamilla (2017)	Hemelrijk, Buwalda		5171.0526	contact
Aniket Ranjangaonkar (2025)	Etienne			contact
Yang Shen (2021)	Etienne		5172.0547	contact
Megha Suresh (2025)	Egas, Wertheim			contact
Alkmini Zania (2025)	Etienne, Egas			contact

Former PhD students

Former members

Ryan Brewer (2026) - thesis
Ornela Dehayem Nanwou (2026) - thesis
David Ekkers (2026) - thesis
Tianjian Qin (2026) - thesis
Jana Riederer (2026) - thesis
Lizzie Roeble (2026) - thesis
Mário Santos Mira (2026) - thesis
Raphaël Scherrer (2026) - thesis
Misshelle Bustamante Ordonez (2025) - thesis
Jakob Gismann (2025) - thesis
Marcos Suarez Menendez (2025) - thesis
>Amandine Vidal-Hosteng (2025) - thesis
Mirjam Borger (2024) - thesis
Vicente Castillo Chora (2024) - thesis
Megan Korte (2024) - thesis
Jan Kreider (2024) - thesis
Joshua Lambert (2024) - thesis
Gerrit Potkamp (2024) - thesis
Pedro Santos Neves (2024) - thesis
Lauren Seex (2024) - thesis
Stefano Tiso (2024) - thesis
Timo van Eldijk (2024) - thesis
Shu Xie (2024) - thesis
Jorge Amaya Romero (2023) - thesis
Christoph Netz (2023) - thesis
Theo Pannetier (2023) - thesis
Rolf Storms (2023) - thesis
Tiphaine Bailly (2022) - thesis
Pratik Gupte (2022) - thesis
Silu Lin (2022) - thesis
Xiaoyan Long (2022) - thesis
Marina Papadopoulou (2022) - thesis
Lucas Porto (2022) - thesis
Apu Ramesh (2022) - thesis
Elodie Wilwert (2022) - thesis
Jia Zheng (2022) - thesis
Giovanni Laudanno (2021) - thesis
Martijn Schenkel (2021) - thesis
Richel Bilderbeek(2020) - thesis
Karen Bisschop (2020) - thesis
Kasper Hendriks (2020) - thesis
Stefany Moreno Gamez (2020) - thesis
Liang Xu (2020) - thesis
Leonel Herrera Alsina (2019) - thesis
Alberto Nakauma Gonzalez (2019) - thesis
Adriana Alzate Vallejo (2018) - thesis
Alex Ivanov (2018) - thesis
Paul van Els (2018) - thesis
Martin Hinsch (2017) - thesis
Valentin Lecheval (2017) - thesis
Andrés Quiñones Paredes (2016) - thesis
Jordi van Gestel (2016) - thesis
Verena Brauer (2015, UvA) - thesis
Monique de Jager (2015) - thesis
Thijs Janzen (2015) - thesis
Willemien Smith-Kleefsman (2015) - thesis
Piet van den Berg (2015) - thesis
Ellen van Velzen (2015) - thesis
Jianlei Zhang (2015) - thesis
Lucas Molleman (2014) - University of Nottingham, UK - thesis
Ivan Puga-Gonzalez (2014) - thesis
Francisco Encinas Viso (2013) - thesis
Bram Kuijper (2013) - University of Cambridge, UK - thesis
Xubing Liu (2013) - thesis
Elske van der Vaart (2013) - Psychobiology, University of Amsterdam - thesis
Ana Duarte (2012) - University of Cambridge, UK - thesis
Aniek Ivens (2012) - Rockefeller University NYC, USA - thesis
Daan Reid (2011) - UMCG, Groningen - thesis
Tomás Revilla (2010) - CNRS Moulis, France - thesis
Laura Ross (2010) - University of Oxford, UK - thesis
Barbara Feldmeyer (2009) - BiK-F Frankfurt, Germany - thesis
Bernd Grillenberger (2009) - thesis
Harold Perez de Vladar (2009) - IST, Austria - thesis
Max Wolf (2009) - IGB Berlin, Germany - thesis
Joke Bakker (2008) - GELIFES-TRES - thesis
Thomas Berngruber (2008) - CNRS Montpellier, France - thesis
Magdalena Kozielska (2008) - GRIP, University of Groningen - thesis
Thor Veen (2008) - University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK - thesis
Jan Wantia (2007) - thesis
Wouter Vahl (2006) - University of Helsinki, Finland - thesis
Martijn van de Pol (2006) - Australian National University, Canberra - thesis
Sander van Doorn (2004) - GELIFES-TRES - thesis
Ido Pen (2000) - GELIFES-TRES - thesis
Odilia Velterop (2000) - thesis
Jef Huisman (1997) - University of Amsterdam [contact]
Michiel van Boven (1997) - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Bilthoven) [contact]
Johan van de Koppel (1997) - Netherlands Institute of Ecology (Yerseke) & GELIFES-Conservation Ecology group [contact]

Joke Bakker (ict & educational support) - GELIFES [contact]
Sebastian Baldauf (postdoc) - University of Bonn, Germany [contact]
Alex Blokhuis (postdoc)
Eva Boon (postdoc)
Carlos Botero (postdoc) - Durham, USA [contact]
Kuke Bijlsma (emeritus professor) [contact]
Ruth Castillo Cajas - Technische Universität Darmstadt [contact]
Josselin Cornuault (postdoc)
Xiaoguang Du
Pim Edelaar (postdoc) - Department of Animal Ecology, University of Uppsala, Sweden [contact]
Leif Engqvist (postdoc)
Bruno Ens - SOVON Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology & Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) [contact]
Tim Fawcett (postdoc) - Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment, Université de Montréal, Canada [contact]
Claire Guérin (scientific programmer) - UG Library [contact]
Charlotte Hemelrijk (emeritus professor)
Hanno Hildenbrandt (postdoc) - GELIFES-TRES [contact]
Thijs Janzen (postdoc) - GELIFES-TRES [contact]
Hanspeter Kunz - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich [contact]
Boris Kramer (postdoc) - [contact]
Helen Kruize
Cyrus Mallon (postdoc) - [contact]
Sido Mylius (postdoc) - National Institute of Public Health and the Environment [contact]
Maarten Nauta - National Institute of Public Health and the Environment [contact]
Alex Pigot (postdoc) - University College London [contact]
Kees Rappoldt - EcoCurves [contact]
Babak Shojaei Arani (postdoc)
Pete Skelsey (postdoc)
Anni Skirl
Margarete Utz (postdoc)
Marielle van Rijswijk [contact]
Chunyang Zhang (postdoc) [contact]

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