1. Education and employment
2021-now: Associate Professor (Universitair Hoofddocent, UHD)
Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University (the Netherlands)
2017-2020: Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent, UD)
Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University (the Netherlands)
2015-2017: Postdoctoral researcher
Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University (the Netherlands)
2013-2014: Marie Curie Research Fellow
Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University (the Netherlands)
2012-2013: NWO Research Fellow
Experimental Zoology Group, Wageningen University (the Netherlands)
2009-2011: Postdoctoral researcher
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside (USA)
2007-2009: Rubicon Research Fellow (NWO-KNAW)
Department of Biology, University of California Riverside (USA)
2001-2006: Ph.D. research position
Department of Aquatic Ecology & Environmental Biology, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
& Department of Plant-Animal Interactions, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (the Netherlands)
2001: M.Sc. (Cum Laude, with honors)
Department of Evolutionary Microbiology, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
& Department of Animal Ecology & Ecophysiology, Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands)
2. Funding, prices and travel grants
2018: 5,000 euro: Strategic Investment Theme Resilience (in collaboration with Dr. L. Nagelkerke) (Wageningen University & Research)
2017: 287,067 euro: WIAS research grant (in collaboration with Dr. H-J Megens) (Wageningen University & Research)
2017: 60,000 euro: Strategic Investment Theme Resilience (in collaboration with Dr. L. Nagelkerke) (Wageningen University & Research)
2016: 4,820 euro: Strategic Investment Theme Resilience (in collaboration with Dr. L. Nagelkerke) (Wageningen University & Research)
2016: 240,000 euro: Adaptive Life grant (in collaboration with Dr. JDA Olivier & Prof. B Wertheim) (Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences)
2015: 800,000 euro: VIDI research grant (NWO-KNAW)
2015: 500 euro: ASG-publicatieprijs for best publication of 2014
2012: 191,675 euro: Marie Curie IIF research grant (7th Framework Programme, European Union)
2012: 2,000 euro: Field research grant from the Schure Beijerinck Popping Fonds (KNAW)
2011: 284,382 euro: ALW research grant (in collaboration with Prof. JL van Leeuwen) (NWO-KNAW)
2010: 493 euro: ESEB Travel grant (European Society for Evolutionary Biology)
2007: 68,500 euro: RUBICON research grant (NWO-KNAW)
1998: 1,000 euro: SNUF Travel grant (Stichting Nijmeegs Universitair Fonds)
3. Editorial board and reviewer activities
a). Reviewer of grants
ALW Open Programme (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
ENW-XS (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)
National Science Center (Poland)
b). Editorial Board memberships
2012-present: Freshwater Biology
2007-2014: The Open Marine Biology Journal
c). Guest editor (with Jaime Zúñiga-Vega, Andrea Aspbury and Jerald Johnson) of special topic in Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution
2020-2021: Special topic “Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior of Viviparous Fishes”.
d). Reviewer of manuscripts for 37 international journals
Acta Oecologia
Animal Cells & Systems
Aquatic Botany
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Biology Letters
Conservation Genetics
Current Zoology (formerly Acta Zoologica Sinica)
Diversity & Distributions
Ecology
Ecotropica
Environmental Biology of Fishes
Evolution
Evolutionary Ecology
Folia Zoologica
Freshwater Biology
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Heredity
Hydrobiologia
Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal of Applied Ichthyology
Journal of Biogeography
Journal of Ecology
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Fish Biology
Journal of Heredity
Journal of Zoology
Molecular Ecology
Nature Communications
Naturwissenschaften
New Phytologist
Plant Biology
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Oecologia
Seed Science Research
Scientific Research & Essays
Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
The Open Marine Biology Journal
e). Reviewer of book chapters
Zebra Mussels in Europe (ISBN 978-3-8236-1594-1)
Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes (ISBN 978-0-226-22274-5)