Group Members

Current members

Our group brings together researchers, students, technical specialists, and bioinformaticians. Prof Dr Michael T. Monaghan leads the group at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin.

The people page of the Molecular Ecology and Genomics Research Group introduces the individuals who carry the group's work at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Institute of Biology at Freie Universität Berlin. Rather than a simple roster, the page situates each person within a shared scientific setting: field research, laboratory bench work, bioinformatics, and training in molecular ecology and genomics.

Composition matters here, and the page makes that clear. Group members include group leaders, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral candidates, master's students, technical assistants, and bioinformaticians, each contributing a distinct skill set to common questions about freshwater biodiversity, evolution, and environmental change. The mix reflects the interdisciplinary character of modern molecular ecology, where sampling in rivers and lakes is inseparable from sequencing, computation, and interpretation.

Leadership for the group rests with a professor based jointly at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Institute of Biology at Freie Universität Berlin, providing an institutional bridge between two connected research environments. Around that leadership, the team spans early-career scientists and experienced technical staff, a structure that supports continuity of methods alongside fresh perspectives on questions in aquatic biology and conservation.

The expertise represented across the membership aligns with the group's publication record and research agenda. Recent work addresses freshwater biodiversity priorities, genomic and mitochondrial approaches, eel biology and associated parasites, fungal and insect systems, forest dieback, induced climate effects on aquatic communities, and computational tools such as gene expression and bioinformatics pipelines for health and environmental informatics. These topics show how personnel skills map onto active research lines.

For prospective students and visitors, the people page offers a sense of working culture and collaboration structure rather than formal job listings. The presence of teaching, training, and media components alongside publications and press coverage suggests a group that values dissemination and public engagement. Readers interested in joining the effort, or in understanding how the group's science is organised, can follow the site's dedicated sections for teaching, media, and contact information.