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My Team
At Naturalis Biodiversity Center, I lead bachelor and master students on projects about the evolution of animal phenotypic diversity. At the University of Ghent I co-founded, along with Prof. Matthew Shawkey, the Evolution and Optics of Nanostructures research group. There, I work with a dynamic group of postdocs, PhD and master students on research topics from animal coloration to the evolution of animal egg morphology and function.

Matthew Shawkey
Co-Founder EON lab

Gerben Debruyn
Functional morphology of reptile eggshells

Jessica Dobson
Mammal color evolution

Jonathan Goldenberg
Squamate color diversity and evolution
Former students

Svana Rogalla
Thermal effects of avian coloration
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