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Welcome to my homepage. I am a biologist working in the fields
of evolutionary biology, systematics, and ecology, mostly studying
tropical and mediterranean land snails, but I also work with parasitic
wasps, scavenging beetles, birds, and the bacterial symbiont Wolbachia.
More information on my favourite organisms is here.
Currently, I am an associate professor at the Institute
for Tropical Biology and Conservation at Universiti
Malaysia Sabah, where I have set up a molecular
genetics laboratory and a land
snail collection, and run research
projects on, among other things, speciation in endemic land
snails from limestone outcrops. More on the lab, the collection
and the research projects can be found elsewhere on this website.
Also featured is a list of publications, many of which can be
downloaded for your personal use.
In addition
to my scientific work, I have been active as a popular science
writer since 1994. I write on ecology and evolution for Science,
ScienceNOW,
and Natural
History, the Malaysian national newspaper The
Star and for several Dutch newspapers and magazines, such
as NRC Handelsblad,
Bionieuws,
de Volkskrant,
and Intermediair.
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Office
address:
Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia
Sabah, Locked Bag 2073, 88999 Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia tel. +60-88-320000
ext. 2335 fax. +60-88-320291
e-mail:
(preferred) or
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