Investigating siluriform diversity and evolution

Research directions

Biodiversity discovery and taxonomic description

Unravelling undescribed biodiversity constitutes an fundamental part of my research. Within museum collections a time lag often exists between the initial discovery of a species and its official description, but such a delay only results in lost opportunities for understanding that biodiversity. While my work mainly focuses on the diversity of the subfamily Corydoradinae, I am equally interested in other catfish families and am actively involved in their taxonomic descriptions.

Macroevolution of Siluriformes

Describing new species itself is a thrilling and rewarding process, but my ultimate goal is to resolving global questions across catfish phylogeny. My PhD project involves using an integrated approach (i.e., morphology and genomic data) to elucidate evolutionary relationships of a larger clade of Asian-African catfish with several Neotropical families.