Postdoctoral Researchers
Léa is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University. She is a behavioural ecologist interested in sexual selection and mating systems in fishes. She received a Master of Science with highest honours from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Rennes 1 and recently obtained her PhD at the University of Pau and the Adour Region, where her research focused on the role of the social environment in shaping variation in sexual selection in lampreys.
Ana is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University. She is mainly interested in the evolution of sexual traits and social behaviours. In her MSc and PhD, at CIBIO (Portugal), she studied the evolution of coloration, and how phenotypes influence social structure and mate choice, using theoretical and empirical work mostly in birds. Currently, she is working with the SpermTree database on the evolution of sperm in animals and studying cognition in different fish species of the Poeciliidae family.
Lennart is a postdoctoral researcher funded by the Wenner-Gren Stiftelserna in the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University. He is an evolutionary biologist interested in sexual selection and the interaction of evolution and ecology. In his PhD on 'Sex-specific selection in different environments' at TU Dresden he combined experimental approaches in the red flour beetle with meta-analyses. His current project focusses on sexual selection in halfbeaks and the evolution of ornamentation in females.
PhD Students
Madicken combines phylogenetic and experimental approaches to investigate how selection has shaped the tremendous diversity in animal colouration and patterns. In her current project, she is examining the evolution of distinct markings in skates and rays. She is also experimentally testing if eyespots have an anti-predator function in an aquatic environment, using Brown-banded Bamboo sharks, Lemon sharks, and stickleback as model predators.
MSc Students
Personality and cognition in Poeciliid fishes
Mating dynamics in halfbeaks
Brain evolution in Poeciliid fishes
Developing methods to fluorescently label sperm in fishes
Research Analysts and Assistants
Lab Manager and Research Analysist
Research Assistant
Research Assistant
Internship students
Julia Corson
Lab Alumni
Postdocs
Raissa de Boer
Alessandro Devigili
Ariel Kahrl
PhD Students
Erika Fernlund Isaksson
Charel Reuland
Amy Rowley
MSc Students
Amanda Viving (Stockholm University)
Anna Renner (Stockholm University)
António Gonçalves (Stockholm University)
Will Ashworth (Stockholm University)
Evelina Juntorp (Stockholm University)
Piotr Michal Michalak (Uppsala University)
Alice Bourtelli (Stockholm University)
Hannah Ogden (Stockholm University)
Madicken Åkerman (Stockholm University)
Katie Hunter (co-supervisor, University of Manchester)
Daisy Bridge (University of Manchester)
Holly Wilkinson (University of Manchester)
Natalie Sopinka (co-supervisor, McMaster University)
Visiting Researchers and Students
Charleen Ruppert (Bremen University)
Jakub Zák (Charles University in Prague)
Brett Culbert (McMaster University)
Lisa Locatello (University of Padova)
Mariana Rêgo (Universidade Federal Rural de Perambuco)