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I am an evolutionary biologist interested in sex chromosome evolution, sexual selection and speciation. I am a postdoc in the Ma group and a 10% professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, working on sex chromosome evolution.

News

June 2026

I presented this poster at SMBE in Copenhagen (28 June - 2 July) presenting. The relevant preprint is here.

Congratulations to Gabriele, Sebastian, Julie and Maëliss for defending their BSc theses in the June exams. You can see them, and their posters, at the Students page.

The site has received an redesign. The Research pages have been compacted and are being updated. Lab protocols are easier to find in the updated Resources page.

Marzieh's Master thesis is part of a Publication which is currently in review.

April 2026