Adjunkt
Section for Evolutionary Genomics
Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 København K
My research takes a holistic approach to understand the ecology and evolution of marine mammals, using ancient, environmental and modern DNA analyses, museum collections and observations in the wild to study the effects of environmental change, pathogens, and human impacts.
I curate the marine mammal collection at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, teach marine mammal biology and research, and supervise multiple PhD, MSc and BSc student projects.
Aktuel forskning
Main research areas
Pinniped evolution and ecology
Beaked whale evolution and ecology
Marine mammal health and human interactions
Environmental and ancient DNA
PhD students
Xenia Weber - Prehistoric population structure and human utilisation of Atlantic walrus
Maiken Hemme Bro-Jørgensen - Colonisation and extinction of harp seals in the Baltic
Iben Stokholm - Zoonotic diseases in top predators
Dóra Székely - eDNA for beaked whale monitoring
MSc students
Sabine Sig Hansen - Beaked whale population genomics
Sascha Dreyer Nielsen - Beaked whale population genomics
Simon Norling - Grey seal population genomics
Ditte Elmgreen - Diet of North Sea grey seals
Sara Persson - Utility of seal scarers in salmon fisheries
BSc students
Sofie Bang - Harbour seal phylogeography
Stefanie Nielsen - Grey seal mitogenomes
Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder
Marine Mammal Biology and Research (lecturer and course manager) http://kurser.ku.dk/course/NNMB15001U
Molecular Ecology (lecturer and co-manager)
Danmarks Fauna (guest lecturer)
Basic Arctic Biology (guest lecturer)
Arctic Field Course (guest lecturer)
Forensic Geobiology (guest lecturer)
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