by Agnes | Jul 21, 2024 | reflections and news
The past months have been a little different for my lab with me being on maternity leave and dividing my time between childcare and work during nap times. First, I have to say – while it is challenging sometimes, it is also tremendously rewarding, and I enjoy...
by Agnes | Jun 25, 2023 | reflections and news
My first semester as a new PI at the University of Vienna is coming to an end… transitioning from being a postdoc to a PI – brought some surprises for me, and some things just stayed the same! Like many other postdocs, I have (co-)advised many students...
by Agnes | Feb 27, 2023 | reflections and news
I am moving back to Austria to start my own lab on Plant-Animal-Interactions at the University of Vienna on March 1st! 😀 It was a dream to get a job close to my hometown, family and friends, and Vienna offers a wonderful reserach environment for me. New projects are...
by Agnes | Dec 13, 2022 | reflections and news
After all the fieldwork in summer, fall was about crunching deeply into data analyses, paper and proposal writing… we have some exciting results to share about Merianieae diversification in the Neotropics from the modelling project with Stacey Smith and Laura...
by Agnes | Jan 31, 2022 | reflections and news
Today is a big day in the world of Melastomataceae! 😀 Finally, after about two years of work, Melastomatologists across the world have put together 34 chapters in a book soon to be published by Springer! Special thanks to the main editors Frank Almeda, Renato...
by Agnes | Sep 22, 2021 | reflections and news, student research
This has been such a fun project! Thanks to José Valverde, whom I had the pleasure to co-advise during his licenciate thesis at Universidad de Costa Rica, we now know the pollinators of Meriania macrophylla! This species is special because its flowers share traits of...
