Postdoc and PhD candidates
dr. Adriana Alzate
Postdoc working on (macro)ecological and (macro)evolutionary processes responsible for current biodiversity patterns
Ludi Aji
Community assembly and food web structure across temperature gradients through Indonesian marine lakes
Christiaan de Leeuw
The relative role of stochastic and deterministic processes in the assembly of ecological communities
Agustin Capriati
Connectivity and resilience of marine protected areas in West Papua, Indonesia
Mainah Folkers
Food webs and benthic phase shifts on coral reefs and in marine lakes affected by the combined stressors of rising sea water temperature and nutrient loads
dr. Diede Maas
Islands of Sea: The evolution, ecology and conservation of marine lake invertebrates
Received PhD degree in June 2021
Maslim As- singkily
Population genetic structure and migration paths of leatherback turtles in Sumatra
Stephanie Martinez
Spatial and temporal trajectories of tropical marine communities under high temperature and eutrophic conditions
Former PhD Candidates
Jurjan Pieter van der Zee (University of Groningen) - Evolutionary ecology of sea turtles
Anak Agung Gede Indraningrat (WUR/ Laboratory of Microbiology) - Depth Matters: (anti) Microbial Diversity of Marine Sponges
Master students
Former master students
Worked in Marine Lakes
Ikbar Al Asyari, Meik Verdonk, and Martijn Engelen - Foodweb structure of marine lakes. Stable isotope analysis
Anika Holtrop - Biodiversity of marine benthic groups across temperature gradients of marine lakes
Septhy Kusuma Radjasa - eDNA methods optimization for Indonesian marine lakes
Merethe Zalm - Morphometric analysis of mussels inhabiting marine lakes of Indonesia
Inez van Erp - Water quality assessment of marine lakes
Stephanie Martinez - Morphological variation of two goby species inhabiting marine lakes
Robin Olde Wolbers - Fish biodiversity inhabiting marine lakes
Thomas van Lith - Jellyfish lakes: modeling populations abundance fluctuations
Sean van der Steeg - Taxonomy of bivalves and gastropods in Raja Ampat
Emma Pratt - Genetic differentiation in marine lake mussels
Maria Meijer - Population structure and genetic divergence of Brachidontes sp and Suberites diversicolor
Delo Wolters - Drivers of sponge assemblage structure in marine lakes
Jennifer Koelman - Mollusk morphological plasticity in relation to an environmental gradient
Renske Pompe - Isotope analysis of marine lakes
Dahlia Hassel - Sponge diversity in marine lakes
Saskia Oosterbroek - Phylogenetic community and ecology of marine lakes
Mark de Leeuw - ddRAD genomics of marine lakes populations
Amanda Putri - Governance of jellyfish lakes in Misool
Lyke Stuurman - Biodiversity of marine lakes: a mechanistic model for the interplay of speciation, extinction, and migration
Luca Prins
Mabel Brekelmans - Food web analysis of mussels
Esmée Roosenmaallen - Benthic biodiversity of marine lakes
Worked in Coral Reefs
Chantal Visser, Arjen Okma and Max van Aalst - Status of Bonaire coral reefs
Cassidy Dietz - Spatial competition in coral reefs
Tobia de Scisciolo - Tourism effect on socio-ecological systems of Aruba
Jeltzlin Semerel - The effect of coral restoration on fish stocks of Bonaire
Anne Top - The effect of coral restoration on fish stocks of Bonaire
Jared Green - Coral symbionts tolerance to CO2 gradients
Tatiana Becker - Fish diversity of Saba Banks
Pam Engelberts - Gene expression on coral restoration techniques
Mari-Lee Odendaal - Transciptomic responses of juvenile versus shelled heteropod Atlanta ariejansseni under gradients of ocean acidification
Michelle van Leijsen - Habitat mapping of Saba Bank
Yu Wentao - Bioinformatics of gene expression of targetted genes of wild and nursery corals
Danielle de Kool - Impact of environmental factors on the abundance and distribution of cyanobacteria on Bonaire and Aruba
Sharelle Verheij - Abundance of benthic cyanobacteria mats at water runoff spots around Bonaire
Lucia Talavera - Transcriptomics of coral nurseries
Robbert van Himbeeck - Taxonomy of the sponge species Tethya in Kalimantan
Miriam Loth - Effects of grazing and invasive seagrass on benthic communities in sea grass beds
Peter Vodegel - Comparison of coral restoration succes in nurseries of RESCQ project
Lieveke Crombach - Sea turtle protection action plan in BES islands
Mirthe Wiltink - is Saba Bank becoming a sponge reef?
Lieveke Crombach, Eva Mudde, Maarten Rutting, and Sarina Versteeg - Coral reef restoration in Bonaire
Thijs van Wuijckhuijse - Impact of grazing by sea turtles on the growth and productivity of native seagrass species