I am a marine ecologist primarily interested in ecological and
evolutionary responses of marine species to environmental change. My
work focuses on ecologically important non-model species, including
macroalgae and seagrass.
To investigate species responses from molecular to ecosystem-wide scales
I am using a variety of approaches, ranging from molecular genetic
analyses to common-garden experiments, bioinformatics programming and
computer modelling of larval dispersal and species distribution.
In my current Post-doc project I characterize epigenetic variation in
clonal seagrass meadows and its functional role under heat stress. The
main question of the project is: Does epigenetic variation allow for
rapid evolutionary change in response to changing environments and is
thus key to evolutionary success without genetic variation? This study
will answer fundamental questions in the budding research field of
'Ecological Epigenetics'.
Publications: https://scholar.google.no/citations?user=uQOuuGUAAAAJ&hl=en
Website: www.marinetics.org