Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Evolutionary Stress Ecology and Ecotoxicology, KU Leuven, Belgium
I am interested in disentangling the evolutionary processes driving population differentiation and speciation using genomics and transcriptomics.
During and after my PhD at the University of Leuven I studied the evolutionary processes during range expansion and thermal adaptation in two damselfly species. After that I went to the Free University of Berlin with an Alexander Von Humboldt Research Fellowship to explore RNA interference possibilities in odonates in (semi)natural conditions. During my subsequent Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lund University I investigated the factors that lead to genomic divergence between closely related and hybridizing damselfly species of the Ischnura genus. At the moment I am back at the University of Leuven with an FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship to study patterns in gene expression reaction norms during thermal adaptation in a damselfly.