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Dr. Stephanie Holzhauer

Research associate until July 2011

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Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei

 

 

Research interests

  • landscape genetics (population genetics and landscape ecology)
  • effects of spatial land-use structure and of its temporal dynamics on genetic population structures in agricultural landscapes
  • phylogeny, biogeography and population genetics of montane Flora using the example of species of Edelweiss (Leontopodium)

 

Scientific career

  • 01/2011:  research period at the Natural History Museum, Vienna (SYNTHESYS research grant)
  • since 09/2010:  Participant of the DFG Junior Academy "Systematics of Plants and Fungi"

  • since 2010:   research associate in the Institute of Botany, Systematic Botany group, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • 2009:   doctoral thesis: „Saltatoria in agricultural landscape: spatio-temporal effects of land-use dynamics on population genetic structure and gene flow”
  • 12/00 – 07/09:   research associate at the Institute of Animal Ecology and Systematic Zoology, Animal Ecology Group, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
  • 2001 – 2008:   involved in the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 299 'Land-use Options for Peripheral Regions' of the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), subproject B 3.3 “influence of land use on the population genetic structure of selected insect species“
  • 11/04 – 10/04:   Marie Curie Fellowship funded by the EU: participation in the Marie Curie Training at the Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Sussex, U.K.: AFLP application
  • 10/03 – 06/04:  Marie Curie Fellowship funded by the EU: Development and analysis of microsatellites; Marie Curie Training Site MOTIVE: Molecular Tools in Evolutionary and Ecological Research, School of Biology, University of Newcastle, U.K.
  • 2001 – 2003:   Recipient of a scholarship granted by the federal state of Hesse, Germany
  • 05/00:   Diploma thesis: "Populationsgenetische Untersuchung an der Heuschrecke Metrioptera roeseli (Hagenbach 1822) in unterschiedlichen Bewirtschaftungsmustern", Philipps University Marburg, Germany; prepared at the Institute of Animal Ecology and Systematic Zoology, Animal Ecology Group, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
  • 1998 – 2000:   Biology studies at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. Final examination in Biology, subject: ecology
  • 1993 – 2000:  Biology studies and Diploma at the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Final examination in Biology, subjects: zoology, nature conservation, and geography


Publications


Teaching experience

  • supervision of Bachelor-, Master-, and Diploma theses
  • practical training of PhD students of other universities
  • IFZ Graduate School
  • practical courses in Zoology, Botany (K-2-BEX, M-BO-BFS), landscape genetics, etc.