Projects / Funding

- Ursprung von Biodiversität: Molekulargenetisch-phylogenetische Untersuchung der Copelatinae, einer megadiversen Gruppe von Schwimmkäfern
- A Test of DNA Barcoding (a.k.a. DNA Taxonomy) and the Evolution of a Continental Fauna
- Phylogenie und Evolution der diversen Schwimmkäfergattung Papuadytes im geologisch hoch komplexen Neu Guinea. Ein Beitrag zur Evolution tropischer Diversität.
- Do molecules bear the key to solving a complex taxonomic problem? The Western Palearctic jewel leaf beetles in the genus Cryptocephalus Müller (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)
- Origin of an extremely widespread arthropod supertramp from a clade of narrowly endemic New Guinea highland species in the context of Oceanian biogeography
- Evolutionary Diversification and Biogeography of an Australian fauna, revealed by a near-complete species level molecular phylogeny of diving beetles
- An integrative approach to systematics and evolution of Trigonopterus, a hyperdiverse genus of flightless weevils from South Asia and the West Pacific
- A Test of DNA Barcoding (a.k.a. DNA Taxonomy) based on near complete species level sampling of Australian diving beetles
- Evolution and Biogeography in the Indomalayan-Melanesian-Oceanian region
- Evolution of subterranean ground beetles in the West Palearctic
DEFRA / UK Darwin Initiative:
- Training the next generation of Papua New Guinea conservation biologists
Marie Curie Fellowships:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation:
- Phylogeography and molecular systematics of Cryptocephalus of the C. hypochaeridis group in Europe
- Cladistic analysis of the tribe Hyperini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; Hyperinae)
- Molecular evolution and subterranean adaptation: Phylogeny and convergence in Alpine cave beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Trechini)
