Curriculum vitae

Education and employment

2019 - Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2014 - 2018Postdoctoral fellowship at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
2013 - 2014  Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Avian Research in Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2011 - 2013Postdoctoral fellowship at the Edward Grey Institute of the University of Oxford, UK
2007 - 2011  PhD in Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Centre of Ecological and Evolutionary studies of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Cum laude/with distinction*)
1999 - 2005MSc in Biology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Cum laude/with distinction*)

*in the Netherlands only awarded to the top 5% of students

 

Grants

2019  Eigene Stelle' from the German Science Foundation (DFG): €330k
2014 Veni’ fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): €250k
2013 von Humboldt’ fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany: €83k
2011  Rubicon’ fellowship from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): €135k

 

Teaching

I have co-supervised two PhD students:

1) Dr. H. Zhang, at the Institute of Avian Research, Germany (with Prof. Dr. PH Becker and Dr. S Bouwhuis)

2) Dr. S.M. Amininasab, at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, the Netherlands (with Prof. Dr. J Komdeur and Dr. P Korsten)

 

I have (co-)supervised ten MSc students (from the Universities of Groningen, Oldenburg, Bremen, Lyon and Imperial College London):

1) MSc. R. Gordijn

2) Dr. E. Jongepier

3) Dr. A.M.F. Harts

4) MSc. Y. Roelofs

5) MSc. D.L. Niehoff

6) MSc. M. Ruiz Minano

7) MSc. N. Kürten

8) MSc. M. Bourgeois

9) MSc. C. Arvind

10) BSc. A. Kersten

11) Bsc. N. Becker

 

I furthermore have:

- supervised three BSc students in writing their BSc theses

- supervised eighteen BSc students in eight-week field-based research projects 

- four times organised the practical part of a BSc course on behaviour and evolution

- three times assisted in the practical part of a BSc course on ecology

- been employed as a student teaching assistant by the University of Groningen six times, to assist in four different practical BSc courses (Behaviour and Evolution 2x, Vertebrate Zoology 2x, Ethology Research 1x, Ecology 1x)

 

Other relevant experience and qualifications

I hold a clean international driving license, and a FELASA-certified Home Office license (‘article 9’) that allows me to work, and conduct experiments, with vertebrates.

I have reviewed articles for PLoS Biology, Nature Communications, Ecology Letters, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Molecular EcologyEvolution, American Naturalist, Journal of Animal EcologyFunctional EcologyJournal of Evolutionary BiologyPLoS OneFrontiers in ZoologyRoyal Society Open ScienceBiology LettersOecologiaAnimal BehaviourBehavioral EcologyBehavioral Ecology and SociobiologyEvolutionary EcologyEthologyBehaviourCurrent ZoologyJournal of Avian BiologyIbis, Journal of Ornithology, CondorArdea, Ornis Fennica, Journal of Field Ornithology and Journal of Raptor Research.

I have reviewed grant applications for the UK Natural Environment Research Council, the Research Foundation Flanders, the French National Research Agency, the Polish National Science Centre and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

I am experienced in disseminating my work to the general public, by means of public lectures for amateur bird organisations, and newspaper and radio interviews for national (e.g., NRCAlgemeen DagbladVara Vroege Vogels) and international (e.g., Scienceline, Climatewire) popular media.