About:

Pieternella Luttikhuizen

Expertise

molecular ecology, population genetics, population genomics, marine invertebrates, coalescent analysis

Employment Record

2011-present: scientist at NIOZ
2007-2011: scientist at NIOZ (NWO-MEERVOUD personal grant)
2007: guest scientist at Tjärnö, Gothenburg University (Sweden) (ESF Conservation Genetics grant)
2006: postdoc at NIOZ
2002-2006: postdoc and lecturer University of Amsterdam
1997-2002: PhD student University of Groningen and NIOZ
1996-present: freelance reviewer of popular science books (Biblion BV)
1996: scientist at Institute for Forestry and Nature Research, Wageningen (numerical modeling)

Education and Training

2012: Management Development Training, Leeuwendaal Institute (6 days)
2010: Media training, NWO (1 day)
2005: Education and Communication, 12 EC course University of Amsterdam
2003: PhD Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Groningen (cum laude)
2001: Statistical Genetics, North Carolina State University (2 weeks)
1996: MSc Biology, Wageningen University
1990: Athenaeum B, Petrus Canisius College, Alkmaar

Prizes & Grants

2007: MEERVOUD personal grant, NWO

2006: ESF Conservation Genetics personal grant

2003: Best PhD Thesis in Functional Ecology Graduate School

Research Interests

To apply molecular ecology concepts and molecular biological techniques to fundamental and applied ecological research questions.

Projects

. kelp propagation and selection for sustainable sea farming (with Hortimare BV, Wageningen University and Groningen University), funded by the European Fisheries Fund

. effects of invasive species on native predator-prey and pathogen-host webs (PI: David Thieltges, with AWI Wadden Sea Station Sylt), funded by Bilateral Wadden Sea Research, NWO and DFG

. mapping cryptic species in the Dutch Wadden Sea (with Rob Dekker, NIOZ)

. population genetic structure of Loripes spp. in the Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania (with Thomas Oudman, NIOZ)

. species identification of cnidarian polyps (with Lodewijk van Walraven, NIOZ)

. phylogeography of Crangon crangon and phylogeny reconstruction of Crangonidae (with CIIMAR, Portugal)

. patterns of distribution, dynamics and genetic variation in the peppery furrow shell Scrobicularia plana (PhD project of Silvia Santos), funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation

Silvia Santos

Publications

For an overview of my publications click here

PhD thesis of Silvia Santos (graduated 2012)

My PhD thesis