Scientific Interests

• Molecular and classic biogeography
• Classic and molecular ecology
• Evolutionary biology
• Conservation biology and conservation genetics including landscape genetics
• Systematics of Lepidoptera

Expertise Skills

• DNA analytics (microsatellites, mtDNA sequencing, AFLP, etc.); allozyme electrophoresis
• Morphometry and morphometrics
• Transect counts, light trapping, etc.
• GPS based mark-release recapture
• Landscape parametrisation (e.g. Ellenberg’s indicator values)
• GIS applications

Organisms of Interest

• Butterflies (main group)
• Odonates, beetles, caddisflies, tipulids, scorpions
• Amphibians, reptiles
• Montane plants