Research interests:

• Taxonomy, systematics and morphological adaptations of the harpacticoid family Laophontidae

• Ecology of the harpacticoid copepod fauna associated with tropical and cold-water coral substrates

Research project at the DZMB:

• Biogeographical study of Paramesochridae in South Atlantic and Antarctic abyssal plains (material from DIVA and ANDEEP)

• Start of the redescription of Kliopsyllus furcavaricatus (Kunz, 1974) and the morphological study of its modified telson

Dates of my stay at the DZMB: 02.05.2007 - 28.06.2007