Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht
Biodiversity discovery and monitoring
Biodiversity discovery and monitoring
Biodiversity discovery and monitoring
I’m a researcher in Fredrik Ronquist Lab at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. I work within Insect Biome Atlas project – a massive effort to collect and describe insect communities in Sweden and Madagascar. My work involves metabarcoding as well as individual insect barcoding and development of insect abundance quantification methods.
I earned my PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany) working with Arne W. Nolte and Professor Diethard Tautz. It focused on hybrid speciation and local adaptation.
I did my master studies in Oceanography and Marine Environment at the Sorbonne University (Paris VI, France).
Before that, I studied Biology and Psychology at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and Oceanography with French at the University of Southampton (UK).
Outside of research I have a passion for science outreach and bio-hacking. Read about it here!
The diversity of life on Earth has always bewildered scientists!
My scientific interest is driven by fascination and urge to document and understand this diversity.
a wonderfully exciting domain of science!
Regretfully
the general public often perceives it as a topic that is extremely
complicated, incomprehensible, demands high expertise and in addition is
simply scary. āGenetic materialā, ācloningā and āgenetically modified
organismsā are terms that often …
I enjoy taking photos with my old analog Russian ZENIT camera. Here I share with you a few of those from: Roscoff (France), Swiss Alps and Aletsch Glacier, Bremerhaven (Germany), Tokyo (Japan).