Dr. Stephanie Holzhauer
Research associate until July 2011
new adress:
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)
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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
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.