Past Group Members

Gil Yardeni
PhD candidate, graduated 2022
PhD thesis: Rinse and repeat: genome dynamics following repeated allopolyploidzation in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza)

Mimmi Eriksson
PhD candidate, graduated 2022
PhD thesis: Rinse and repeat: genome dynamics following repeated allopolyploidzation in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza)
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Ingvarsson Lab, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.

Aglaia Szukala
PhD candidate, graduated 2022
PhD thesis: Parallel and adaptive processes during ecotype formation in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae)
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Federal Research Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Vienna, Austria.

Matt Thornton
MSc student, graduated 2022
MSc thesis: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of smRNA activity after allopolyploidization in marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza majalis s.l.)
Now TA, Bergthaler Lab, CEMM Vienna, Austria.

Anna-Sophie Hawranek
MSc student, graduated 2021
MSc thesis: The impact of recurrent origins and gene flow on the genetic structure of allopolyploid marsh orchids (Dactylorhiza, Orchidaceae)

Michael KJ Janda
MSc student, graduated 2021
MSc thesis: Evolution of the Primula auricula complex (Primulaceae) in the Eastern Alps

Huiying Shang
PhD candidate, graduated 2021, co-supervised with Christian Lexer and Thibault Leroy
PhD thesis: Genomics of the speciation continuum in Eurasian Populus species

Aljaž Jakob
MSc student, graduated 2021
MSc thesis: Phylogenomics of Nicotiana section Suaveolentes (Solanaceae), with a focus on N. benthamiana

Christina Hedderich
PhD candidate, 2019-2021

Marie Kristine Brandrud
PhD candidate, 2015-2019
PhD thesis: The use of phylogenomic tools to investigate diploid and polyploid evolution in Dactylorhiza and other orchids
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oslo

Thomas Wolfe
PhD candidate, 2015-2019
PhD thesis: Genomic interactions and their eco-physiological implications for the evolution of allopolyploid marsh orchids
Now Postdoctoral Fellow, Boku Vienna
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Emiliano Trucchi
Postdoc, 2014-2017
Now Professor, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy
Personal website

Francisco Balao
Marie Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014
Now Associate Professor, University of Seville, Spain
Balao Lab

Arezoo Fani
MSc student, graduated 2019
MSc thesis: Gene regulation by small RNAs at different altitudes in Heliosperma pusillum (Caryophyllaceae)

Maria Tannhäuser
MSc student, graduated 2016
MSc thesis: Genetic differentiation and admixture patterns between Dactylorhiza allopolyploids with a focus on alpine sympatric populations (Orchidaceae)
Now Boku Vienna

Alexander Athanasiadis
Student apprentice, 2016-2017

Tamás Hatfaludi
TA, 2017

Marie Huber
TA, 2017-2019

Juliane Baar
TA, 2014-2017

Maria Teresa Lorenzo
TA, 2013-2014

Baohai Hao
Research assistant, 2014-2015

Daniel Jacob Diehl
Research assistant, 2014-2015