Curriculum vitae
Education and employment
2019-2023 Post-doctoral fellow (VENI), NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands.
Project: The ontogeny of migration: the interplay of genes and environment and how this affects the adaptability
of migratory species to a changing world
2017-2018 Post-doctoral researcher, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands.
Project: Individual development of migration strategies of marine animals
2015-2016 Post-doctoral fellow (Rubicon fellowship), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
Project: The adaptability of migratory animals to a rapidly changing world: novel measures from an integrated
analysis of count, mark-recapture and telemetry data. Collaborators: Dr. Olivier Gimenez, Dr. Roger Pradel
2013–2014 Post-doctoral researcher, Animal Ecology Group, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Project: Demography of waders along the East-Asian Australasian flyway. Collaborator: Prof. Theunis Piersma
2008–2012 PhD, University of Groningen, cum laude
Thesis title: Spoonbills as a model system: a demographic cost-benefit analysis of differential migration.
Promotors: Prof. Theunis Piersma and Prof. Joost Tinbergen
2006-2007 Research fellow at University of Groningen to set up a breeding monitoring program for Spoonbills and write a
grant proposal for a PhD project
2003-2005 Topmaster Evolutionary Biology, University of Groningen, cum laude
Fellowships and awards
2023 National Science Foundation China (NSFC, 65 k€, co-PI)
2022 Nationalparkverwaltung Niedersachsisches Wattenmeer (10 k€, single PI)
2019 Rijkswaterstaat (25 k€, co-PI)
2018 NWO VENI grant (250 k€, single PI)
2015 NWO Rubicon grant (110 k€)
2014 Van Swinderen prize for best Dutch summary of a PhD-thesis at University of Groningen (2nd place)
2008 NWO Open Aanvraag (200 k€, I wrote the application)
2003 Topmaster-fellowship (University of Groningen, 7 k€)
Teaching experience
Academic services and leadership
2019 – present Chair of Dutch Spoonbill Working Group
2015 – present International coordinator of Eurasian Spoonbill colour-ringing schemes
2014 – present Database manager of the Dutch Spoonbill mark-recapture database
2020 Scientific proposal reviewer for NERC Standard grants call
2019 Session convener Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting
2019 Doctoral Defence Committee, University of Groningen (Jeltje Jouta)
2018 Doctoral Defence Committee, University of Groningen (Lucy Schmaltz)
2018 – 2021 Chair of weekly meetings of NIOZ Coastal Systems department
2013 Organiser “Flyway Carrying Capacity” symposium at NIOZ
Manuscript reviewer for Ardea, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Condor, Global Change Biology, Ibis, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Avian Biology, Journal of Ornithology, Limosa, Oecologia and Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Other relevant experience
My statistical skills include mixed models, machine learning methods, state-space models and mark-recapture analysis using both frequentist and Bayesian methods and programs R, MARK, E-Surge, WinBuGS and JAGS. Furthermore, I have much experience in database management using Microsoft Access. I hold a Dutch Artikel-9 license to perform animal experiments.
Communicating research
2022 The ontogeny of migration: the role of genes and environment in shaping migration strategies of Eurasian spoonbills. NAEM meeting, Lunteren, Netherlands and X International Workshop Eurasian Spoonbill international Expert Group, Zadar, Croatia
2019 Keynote speaker at the BOU conference Tracking migration: drivers, challenges and consequences of seasonal movements. Warwick, UK. Invited speaker.
2018 Spoonbill migration in a changing world: the importance of early life conditions. IX International Workshop Eurasian Spoonbill international Expert Group, Djerba, Tunisia.
2017 Integrating mark-resight data and counts of marked and unmarked birds in a Bayesian framework to estimate stopover duration and passage population size of migratory birds. EURING Analytical Meeting & Workshop, Barcelona, Spain. Session speaker.
2017 Spoonbill migration in a changing world: from pattern to mechanism. Tour du Valat Seminar, Tour du Valat, France. Invited speaker.
2015 Limits to the growth of the West-European Spoonbill population: what do we (not) know? International Spoonbill Workshop, Tour du Valat, France. Invited speaker.
2014 Simultaneous declines in summer survival of three shorebird species signals a flyway at risk. International Ornithological Congress, Tokyo, Japan. Session speaker.
2013 Density dependence in spoonbill survival: when and where does it happen? One day conference (to mark my thesis defence), Texel, Netherlands. Session speaker and joint organizer.
2013 Density dependence in spoonbill survival: when and where does it happen? International Wader Study Group meeting & Waterbirds Society meeting, Wilhemshaven, Germany. Invited Symposium speaker.
2012 Age-specific density dependence in seasonal survival of Spoonbills. Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Lunteren, Netherlands. Session speaker.
2010 How weather conditions affect migratory decisions of Spoonbills. International Ornithological Congress, Campos de Jordao, Brazil. Session speaker.
2007 Differential migration: determinants and consequences. European Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria. Session speaker.
Outreach
2019-2023 Post-doctoral fellow (VENI), NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands.
Project: The ontogeny of migration: the interplay of genes and environment and how this affects the adaptability
of migratory species to a changing world
2017-2018 Post-doctoral researcher, NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands.
Project: Individual development of migration strategies of marine animals
2015-2016 Post-doctoral fellow (Rubicon fellowship), Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionelle et Evolutive, CNRS, Montpellier, France.
Project: The adaptability of migratory animals to a rapidly changing world: novel measures from an integrated
analysis of count, mark-recapture and telemetry data. Collaborators: Dr. Olivier Gimenez, Dr. Roger Pradel
2013–2014 Post-doctoral researcher, Animal Ecology Group, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Project: Demography of waders along the East-Asian Australasian flyway. Collaborator: Prof. Theunis Piersma
2008–2012 PhD, University of Groningen, cum laude
Thesis title: Spoonbills as a model system: a demographic cost-benefit analysis of differential migration.
Promotors: Prof. Theunis Piersma and Prof. Joost Tinbergen
2006-2007 Research fellow at University of Groningen to set up a breeding monitoring program for Spoonbills and write a
grant proposal for a PhD project
2003-2005 Topmaster Evolutionary Biology, University of Groningen, cum laude
Fellowships and awards
2023 National Science Foundation China (NSFC, 65 k€, co-PI)
2022 Nationalparkverwaltung Niedersachsisches Wattenmeer (10 k€, single PI)
2019 Rijkswaterstaat (25 k€, co-PI)
2018 NWO VENI grant (250 k€, single PI)
2015 NWO Rubicon grant (110 k€)
2014 Van Swinderen prize for best Dutch summary of a PhD-thesis at University of Groningen (2nd place)
2008 NWO Open Aanvraag (200 k€, I wrote the application)
2003 Topmaster-fellowship (University of Groningen, 7 k€)
Teaching experience
- MSc-course Flyway Ecology, University of Groningen (2017, 2018, 2020, 2022)
- MSc-course Advanced Community and Population Ecology, University of Groningen (2018, 2019)
- One-week international post-graduate workshop Modelling individual histories with state uncertainty,
- BSc-course Experimental Ecology, University of Groningen (2006)
- BSc-course Biomathematics, University of Groningen (2005)
- Supervisor of 6 MSc and 5 BSc students from University of Groningen, University of Amsterdam and Van Hall Institute Leeuwarden
- Co-supervisor of 6 PhD's and 2 Postdocs (NIOZ, University of Groningen, University of Aveiro (Portugal), Tour du Valat (France), SUSTech University (Shenzhen, China), Austral University of Chile (Chile)
Academic services and leadership
2019 – present Chair of Dutch Spoonbill Working Group
2015 – present International coordinator of Eurasian Spoonbill colour-ringing schemes
2014 – present Database manager of the Dutch Spoonbill mark-recapture database
2020 Scientific proposal reviewer for NERC Standard grants call
2019 Session convener Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting
2019 Doctoral Defence Committee, University of Groningen (Jeltje Jouta)
2018 Doctoral Defence Committee, University of Groningen (Lucy Schmaltz)
2018 – 2021 Chair of weekly meetings of NIOZ Coastal Systems department
2013 Organiser “Flyway Carrying Capacity” symposium at NIOZ
Manuscript reviewer for Ardea, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Condor, Global Change Biology, Ibis, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Avian Biology, Journal of Ornithology, Limosa, Oecologia and Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Other relevant experience
My statistical skills include mixed models, machine learning methods, state-space models and mark-recapture analysis using both frequentist and Bayesian methods and programs R, MARK, E-Surge, WinBuGS and JAGS. Furthermore, I have much experience in database management using Microsoft Access. I hold a Dutch Artikel-9 license to perform animal experiments.
Communicating research
2022 The ontogeny of migration: the role of genes and environment in shaping migration strategies of Eurasian spoonbills. NAEM meeting, Lunteren, Netherlands and X International Workshop Eurasian Spoonbill international Expert Group, Zadar, Croatia
2019 Keynote speaker at the BOU conference Tracking migration: drivers, challenges and consequences of seasonal movements. Warwick, UK. Invited speaker.
2018 Spoonbill migration in a changing world: the importance of early life conditions. IX International Workshop Eurasian Spoonbill international Expert Group, Djerba, Tunisia.
2017 Integrating mark-resight data and counts of marked and unmarked birds in a Bayesian framework to estimate stopover duration and passage population size of migratory birds. EURING Analytical Meeting & Workshop, Barcelona, Spain. Session speaker.
2017 Spoonbill migration in a changing world: from pattern to mechanism. Tour du Valat Seminar, Tour du Valat, France. Invited speaker.
2015 Limits to the growth of the West-European Spoonbill population: what do we (not) know? International Spoonbill Workshop, Tour du Valat, France. Invited speaker.
2014 Simultaneous declines in summer survival of three shorebird species signals a flyway at risk. International Ornithological Congress, Tokyo, Japan. Session speaker.
2013 Density dependence in spoonbill survival: when and where does it happen? One day conference (to mark my thesis defence), Texel, Netherlands. Session speaker and joint organizer.
2013 Density dependence in spoonbill survival: when and where does it happen? International Wader Study Group meeting & Waterbirds Society meeting, Wilhemshaven, Germany. Invited Symposium speaker.
2012 Age-specific density dependence in seasonal survival of Spoonbills. Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting, Lunteren, Netherlands. Session speaker.
2010 How weather conditions affect migratory decisions of Spoonbills. International Ornithological Congress, Campos de Jordao, Brazil. Session speaker.
2007 Differential migration: determinants and consequences. European Ornithological Congress, Vienna, Austria. Session speaker.
Outreach
- TV-performances in Vroege Vogels TV (April and September 2018, 2020, 2022), Pakhuis de Zwijger (2022), Melk en Honing (2014)
- Radio interviews at RTV Noord and Vroege Vogels (2011)
- Interviews in several Dutch newspapers (Volkskrant, Metro and Leeuwarder Courant) and non-scientific nature and bird journals (National Geographic, Vogels, Waddenbulletin, Boomblad). The Volkskrant interview was also published as a chapter in a book.
- Many presentations for a non-scientific audience at (annual) meetings and open days of SOVON, WIWO, NOU, Birdlife Netherlands, Fryske Fereining foar Fjildbiology, Vogelwerkgroep Texel, Avifauna Groningen, Jeugdbond voor Natuur en Milieustudie (JNM).