Project Participants

Project management

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science
and Technology (Eawag)

Ueberlandstrasse 133
8600 Duebendorf
Switzerland

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Project leader

PD Dr. Piet Spaak
Aquatic Ecology

+41 (0)58 765 5617
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Deputy project leader

Dr. Harald Hetzenauer
Inst. for Lake Research (ISF-LUBW)

+49 (0)7543 304 0
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Coordination & administration

Dr. Josephine Alexander 
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology

Expertise:
biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, multitrophic interactions, functional traits

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+41 (0)58 765 6885

Arianne Maniglia
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology

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+41 (0)58 765 5132

Research group/Institute leaders

PD Dr. Alexander Brinker
Fisheries Research Station Langenargen
(FFS-LAZBW)

Expertise:
fish ecology, fish parasitology,
aquaculture, biometry
Sub-projects: P1, P2, P3, L12

alexander.brinker@lazbw.bwl.de
+49 (0)7543 930 8324

Dr. Philine Feulner
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution
University of Bern, Inst. of Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
evolutionary biology, molecular evolution, ecological genomics, genome evolution
Sub-project: P4

philine.feulner@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 2106

Dr. Harald Hetzenauer
Inst. for Lake Research (ISF-LUBW)

Expertise:
water quality, lakes
Sub-project: P7

harald.hetzenauer@lubw.bwl.de
+49 (0)7543 304 0

Dr. Blake Matthews
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
evolutionary ecology
Sub-project: L13

blake.matthews@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 2120

Ass. Prof. Dr. Markus Möst
University of Innsbruck, Research Dept. for Limnology, Mondsee

Expertise:
evolutionary ecology, hybridisation, speciation
Sub-project:
P5

markus.moest@uibk.ac.at
+43 (0)512 507 51771

Prof. Dr. Jakob Pernthaler
University of Zurich, Limnological Station 

Expertise:
aquatic microbiology,
limnology of Lake Zurich
Sub-project:
 P6

pernthaler@limnol.uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 634 9219

Prof. Dr. Thomas Posch
University of Zurich, Limnological Station

Expertise:
limnology, climate change, protistology,
plankton-ecology, cyanobacteria
Sub-project: P6

posch@limnol.uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 634 9224

Prof. Dr. Karl-Otto Rothhaupt
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
limnology
Sub-projects: L9, L10

karl.rothhaupt@uni-konstanz.de
+49 (0)7531 88 3530

Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmieder
University of Hohenheim, Inst. of Landscape & Plant Ecology

Expertise:
limnology, submerged macrophytes, remote sensing, geographic information systems
Sub-project: L11

klaus.schmieder@uni-hohenheim.de
+49 (0)711 4592 3608

Prof. Dr. Ole Seehausen
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution
University of Bern, Inst. of Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
evolution ecology, ecological genetics,
speciation, population genomics,
fish, subalpine and African lakes
Sub-projects: P4, L13

ole.seehausen@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 2121

PD Dr. Piet Spaak
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology

Expertise:
plankton ecology and evolution
Sub-projects: L10, L13

spaak@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 5617

PD Dr. Dietmar Straile
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
food webs, population ecology, plankton, statistical analysis
Sub-projects: P3, P8, L9

dietmar.straile@uni-konstanz.de
+49 (0)7531 88 2969

PhD students

M.Sc. Stefan Borngraeber (alumnus)
University of Hohenheim,
Inst. of Landscape & Plant Ecology

Expertise:
GIS, remote sensing, development of classification algorithms, statistics
Sub-project: L11

Dipl.-LaÖk. Gunnar Franke
University of Hohenheim,
Inst. of Landscape & Plant Ecology

Expertise:
aquatic ecology, vegetation ecology, landscape ecology, submerged macrophytes, diaspore reservoirs
Sub-project: L11

franke.gunnar@uni-hohenheim.de
+49 (0)711 459 24061

M.Sc. David Frei 
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution
University of Bern, Inst. of Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
evolutionary genomics
Sub-project: P4

david.frei@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 2158

M.Sc. Sarah Gugele (alumna)
Fisheries Research Station Langenargen (FFS-LAZBW)

Expertise:
fish ecology
Sub-project: P1

M.Sc. Linda Haltiner
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology

Expertise:
zooplankton, fresh water mussels, invasive species, population genetics, resource (food) competition
Sub-project: L10

linda.haltiner@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 6429

M.Sc. Tania Holtzem
University of Innsbruck, Dept. of Ecology

Expertise:
evolutionary ecology, population genetics and genomics, speciation, gene flow
Sub-project: P5

tania.holtzem@uibk.ac.at
+43 (0)526 9130 9322

M.Sc. Deborah Knapp
University of Zurich, Limnological Station

Expertise:
Planktothrix rubescens in Lake Zurich
and Lake Constance
Sub-project: P6

deborah.knapp@uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 634 9213

M.Sc. Žiga Ogorelec (alumnus)
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
fish zooplankton interactions
Sub-project: P3

M.Sc. Maike Sabel (alumna)
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
littoral communities in lakes, data analysis (programming language R)
Sub-project: L9

Scientific staff

M.Sc. Steffen Bader
Fisheries Research Station Langenargen (FFS-LAZBW)

Expertise:
fish monitoring, fish ecology, river revitalisation, urban fish communities, fish-based water assessment
Sub-project: L12

steffen.bader@lazbw.bwl.de
+49 (0)7543 930 8331

Dr. Maria Cuenca Cambronero (alumna)
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
evolutionary ecology, zooplankton communities, phenotypic plasticity, genetic adaptation
Sub-project: L13

Dr. Stuart Dennis (alumnus)
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology

Expertise:
evolutionary biology, phenotypic plasticity, genomics
Sub-project: L10

Dr. J. Tyrell DeWeber (alumnus)
Fisheries Research Station Langenargen (FFS-LAZBW)

Expertise:
fisheries ecology and management, statistical modelling of ecological processes, decision science      
Sub-project: P2

Dr. Iris Dröscher (alumna)
Inst. for Lake Research (ISF-LUBW)

Expertise:
limnology
Sub-project: P7

Dr. Cameron Hudson
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
phenotypic evolution of invasive species
Sub-project: L13

cameron.hudson@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 2120

Dr. Benjamin Kraemer
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
lake responses to climate change
Project: synthesis

ben.m.kraemer@gmail.com

Dr. Moritz Lürig (alumnus)
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution

Expertise:
species interactions, phenotypic evolution, ecological informatics, computer vision, time series
Sub-project: L13

M.Sc. Barbara Scholz (alumna)
Fisheries Research Station Langenargen (FFS-LAZBW)

Expertise:
fish ecology in lakes
Sub-project: L12

Dr. Bernd Wahl
Inst. for Lake Research (ISF-LUBW)

Expertise:
lake physics questions
Sub-project: P7

bernd.wahl@lubw.bwl.de
+49 (0)7543 304 170

Dr. Simone Wengrat Ribeiro
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
paleolimnology
Sub-project: P8

simone.wengrat-ribeiro@uni-konstanz.de
+49 (0)177 9223 743

PD Dr. Elizabeth Yohannes (alumna)
University of Konstanz, Limnological Institute

Expertise:
stable isotope ecology, animal movement and migration, invasive species
Sub-projects: P8, L9

Scientific support

B.Sc. Angelina Arquint (alumna)
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution
Sub-project: L13

M.Sc. Silvan Rossbacher
Eawag, Aquatic Ecology

Expertise:
Quagga-mussels, invasive species, aquatic ecology
Sub-project: L10

silvan.rossbacher@eawag.ch
+41 (0)58 765 5777

M.Sc. Dominique Stalder (alumna)
Eawag, Fish Ecology & Evolution
Sub-project: L13

Technical support

Dipl. Ing. Eugen Loher
University of Zurich, Limnological Station

Expertise:
mass spectrometry, flow cytometry
Sub-project: P6

loher@limnol.uzh.ch
+41 (0)44 634 9241

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