Photographing, website-maintenance, gathering of information, identifications of the species.
Coordinator (together with N. Schrieken) of the MOO-project from the ANEMOON foundation.
As a hobby I am very interested in ascidians. Therefor I have developped "The Dutch Ascidians Website".
PhD-student at the National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands.
PhD-project:
"A biogeographical study of parasitic gastropods and their coral hosts in the Indo-west Pacific"
Within this study I am always very interested in acquiring wentletraps (snails that live associated with corals and sea-anemones; >100 species worldwide) on 70-96% alcohol from anywhere in the world, for reconstructing "the wentletrap phylogeny" with the help of DNA-sequencing. The most important research questions of this project are: (1) whether gene flow and integrity of widespread species are maintained across the Indo-Pacific. (2) to what degree the snails and their coral hosts are co-evolving, and (3) whether the historical biogeography and geological timing of reconstructed speciation events can shed light on the evolutionary mechanisms that have led to the present diversity.