Denmark
I am a geneticist, who is interested in how populations change throughout their evolutionary history. Currently I am working on my PhD project where I try to understand selective forces and adaptations that lead some birds to lose their ability to fly.
My PhD project is on revealing the evolutionary genomic background of flight loss in birds, focusing on less studied families such as Rallidae and Podicipedidae.
During my time in the Senckenberg Research Institute, I worked on genetic tracing of potential hybrids between European wildcat (Felis silvestris) and domestic cat (Felis catus) in Germany.
My Master's Thesis was on deciphering the reproductive behaviour of a cichlid species Benitochromis nigrodorsalis who reproduced in isolation. We compared whole genome sequences of the mother to her offspring to understand whether she reproduced via self replication or parthenogenesis.