Elizabeta Briski - Invasion Ecology Group

•   Dr. James W. E. Dickey (Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2021 –  August 2023) – co-supervised by Prof. Dr. Jonathan Jeschke at IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries – Assessing the impacts of emerging invasive alien species from the freshwater pet trade; (January 2018 – March 2018) – Ph.D. exchange student – Using the Relative Impact Potential (RIP) metric to assess a possible Ponto-Caspian invader

•   Dr. Ross N. Cuthbert (Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, March 2020 – February 2022) – Quantifying climate change effects on invasive species ecological impact

•   Dr. Yaping Lin (Postdoctoral Fellow, June 2017 – July 2020) – co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Aibin Zhan (Chinese Academy of Science) – Evaluation of genetic variation and fitness following the reduction in population size of taxa during the transport and establishment stages
 
•   Dr. Andrea Barco (January 2015 – January 2017) – Postdoctoral Fellow – Evolutionary transitions of species from marine to freshwater habitats and vice versa

•   Filipa Alexandra Paiva Antunes (October 2015 – December 2020) – Ph.D. student – The role of geographic origin and life history stages in invasion ecology - a comparative assessment of Northern European, Ponto-Caspian and North American species

•   Isabel Casties (September 2014 – June 2018) – Ph.D. student – Non-indigenous species in Northern Europe and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River: the importance of geographic origin

•   Elisabeth Renk (November 2021 – January 2024) – The effect of salinity on the survival and feeding rates of three pet trade snails

•   Nora Theurich (November 2021 – November 2023) – Master Student – Assessing predatory behaviour of non-native crab - Hemigrapsus takanoi - in the Kiel Fjord; (November 2020 – November 2021) – Bachelor Student – Using comparative functional responses to quantify predatory impacts from the recent invader Hemigrapsus takanoi across demographic, temperature and salinity variations

•   Cindy Giselle Martinez Reyes (August 2019 – September 2023) – Master Student – Environmental tolerance of species with and without invasion record under current and future global warming scenarios; (December 2023 – February 2024) – Graduate Research Assistant – Changes in gammarid communities due to global warming

•   Louisa Langrehr (February 2019 – July 2020) – Master Student – Do anthropogenic stressors facilitate evolution of species and biological invasions?

•   Nora Charlotte Pauli (May 2016 – January 2018) – Master student – Adaptation capacity of Gammarus spp. to different salinity than the original populations of those species are capable to tolerate

•   Christina Sommer (April 2017 – October 2017) – Bachelor Student – Parental care of Gammarus salinus

•   Alena Sidow (April 2016 – December 2016) – Bachelor Student – Comparative assessment of Gammarus sp.      populations from anthropogenically impacted and protected habitats

•   Syrmalenia Kotronaki (July 2020 – August 2021) Graduate Research Assistant – Comparative assessment of global biodiversity and non-native species diversity; (December 2016 – December 2019) Student Research Assistant

•   Jennifer Catherine Nascimento-Schulze (October 2015 – November 2016) – Student Research Assistant – Introduction bias towards taxa that survive management of ship ballast water – shared project with Lara Schmittmann
 
•   Lara Schmittmann (October 2015 – September 2016) – Student Research Assistant – Introduction bias towards taxa that survive management of ship ballast water – shared project with Jennifer Catherine Nascimento-Schulze

•   Petra Kundin (July 2018 – August 2018) – Erasmus Student

•   Antonios Geropoulos (September 2016 – November 2016) – Erasmus Student

•   Gregor Till Stefen (May 2016 – June 2019; September 2021 – April 2023) – Laboratory Technician

•   Fabian Wendt (January 2015 – January 2016) – Laboratory Technician