Ela Iwaszkiewicz-Eggebrecht

Biodiversity discovery and monitoring

About me

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!

My Research

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.

Bio-hacking

Biology is just…

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. ā€œGenetic materialā€, ā€œcloningā€ and ā€œgenetically modified organismsā€ are terms that often …

Gallery

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).