Student Representatives

2023 – 2025

Oonagh Barker

Uni­ver­sity of East Anglia, UK

Picture O. Barker

Oon­agh is a 1st year PhD stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of East Anglia, UK. Oon­agh uses diet­ary manip­u­la­tions in fruit flies to under­stand the impact of nutri­tion­al choices and mat­ing status on repro­duct­ive suc­cess and lifespan for each sex, with the aim of reveal­ing in what way nutri­tion­al choice acts as a determ­in­ant of sex-spe­cif­ic plas­ti­city in life his­tory. Though her interests are wide-ran­ging, she is par­tic­u­larly inves­ted in exper­i­ment­al manip­u­la­tions of trade-offs and the evol­u­tion of ageing.

Con­tact: egsr@eseb.org

2022 – 2024

Viktor Kovalov

Uni­ver­sity of Zurich, CH

picture V. Kovalov

Vikt­or is a 2nd year PhD stu­dent from Uni­ver­sity of Zurich, Switzer­land. Hav­ing a back­ground in zoology and eco­logy, Vikt­or switched to evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy for his doc­tor­ate. He applies mod­el­ling approach to study sexu­al selec­tion, in par­tic­u­lar, evol­u­tion of sig­nal­ing, both in males and females. But hon­estly speak­ing, Vikt­or is pas­sion­ate about any aspect of life.

Con­tact: egsr@eseb.org

Past Student Representatives

Insti­tu­tions lis­ted at the time of the term of the stu­dent representative

  • 2021 – 2023  Falk Nagies, Hein­rich Heine Uni­ver­sity Düs­sel­dorf, DE
  • 2020 – 2022  Ron­an O’Sul­li­van, Uni­ver­sity Col­lege Cork, IE
  • 2018 – 2020  Ben Aux­i­er, Wagen­in­gen Uni­ver­sity, NL
  • 2018 – 2019  Katar­ina Matvijev, Uni­versité libre de Bruxelles, BE