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The marine mammal ecology and evolution group seeks to document and understand effects of environmental change, pathogens, and human activities on the abundance, distribution, diversity and speciation of marine organisms with a focus on marine mammals, their prey and predators.

Our research is interdisciplinary with a focus on ancient, environmental and modern DNA analyses, museum collections and observations in the wild.

We teach Marine Mammal Biology and Research, Molecular Ecology, Arctic Biology, and Danish Vertebrate Zoology, and are always looking for new Postdocs, PhDs, MScs and BScs student to join our group. 

Current research

Main research areas

Marine mammal ecology and evolution

Environmental change, pathogens and human interactions

Applied molecular ecology

 

Postdocs

Jacob Roved - Pinniped immune gene diversity

 

PhD students

Xenia Weber - Prehistoric population structure and human utilisation of Atlantic walrus

Maiken Hemme Bro-Jørgensen - Colonisation and extinction of harp seals in the Baltic

Iben Stokholm - Zoonotic diseases in marine mammals

Dóra Székely - eDNA for marine mammal monitoring

Morgan McCarthy - Beaked whale phylogenomics

Magie Aiken - Exploitation and phylogenomics of Black Sea cetaceans

Emily Ruiz - Walrus exploitation and genetic diversity

 

MSc students

Stefanie Nielsen - Bearded seal genomics

Ida-Marie Mollerup - eDNA and trophic interactions in Disko Bay

 

BSc students

Sarah Saboia - Baltic Sea cetacean zooarchaeology

Teaching

Marine Mammal Biology and Research (lecturer and course manager) https://kurser.ku.dk/course/NNMB15001U

Molecular Ecology (lecturer and co-manager)

Danmarks Fauna (guest lecturer)

Basic Arctic Biology (guest lecturer)

Arctic Field Course (guest lecturer)

Forensic Geobiology (guest lecturer)