Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden

Since more than 30 years I have been working with freshwater crayfish at both a state authority and universities. This has meant trying to base management decisions and guidelines on scientific knowledge, in addition to reality, and being involved in defining recommendations, rules and regulations. Research topics have included all aspects of freshwater crayfish such as ecology, ethology, genetics, physiology, conservation, utilisation, eradication, fisheries, aquaculture, and management strategies.

CSIC, Royal Botanical Garden Madrid, Spain

My research interest is host-pathogen interactions and to investigate pathogenic species (fungal and fungal-like organisms) and invasive alien species and their effect on threatened species, with special emphasis on identifying and characterizing how invasive alien species act as vectors of emerging infectious diseases. To that end, I use environmental DNA (eDNA), molecular tools and conservation approaches (phylogenomics, population genetics or phylogeography) to identify the adaptations of these pathogenic organisms to different hosts and environments, as well as the conditions that favor the colonization process of the hosts.

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University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology
Zagreb, Croatia

My research primarily focuses on understanding the role of past, current and future environmental changes in shaping the genetic variation and evolutionary history of natural populations. My research topics are related and combine the fields of Molecular ecology, Evolutionary biology, Biogeography, Population and landscape genetics, Conservation biology, Species distribution modelling and Ecological niche analyses.

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