About

I am currently at the Federal Institute of Hydrology (Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, BfG) in Koblenz, Germany, where I work on FraGen: developing and validating a non-invasive eDNA-based framework to assess the genetic diversity and population fragmentation of indigenous key fish species in German federal waterways. The aim is to learn how dams, weirs and other hydraulic structures reduce gene flow, whether fishways really restore genetic exchange, and to support evidence-based waterway management.

Before that I worked on the population genomics of Daphnia (water fleas): how zooplankton populations adapt to warming and to environmental gradients. I started with microsatellites and mitochondrial genomes of Cladocera, studied Tibetan Plateau Daphnia with whole-genome resequencing during my PhD at Jinan University, and then worked on the genomic basis of thermal adaptation in Daphnia cucullata at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin.

I build the bioinformatic pipelines behind these analyses.

Interests: environmental DNA (eDNA) · fish migration and gene flow · hydraulic structures and connectivity · Daphnia population genomics · bioinformatics