Student Representatives

2024 – 2026

Florian Strahodinsky

Insti­tute of Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy Aus­tria, AT

Flori­an is a PhD stu­dent in his final year at Insti­tute of Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy Aus­tria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg. He has been pas­sion­ate about ants since his child­hood and stud­ied med­ic­al bio­tech­no­logy. Switch­ing field to evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy allowed him to com­bine his back­grounds and he now stud­ies the host-patho­gen inter­ac­tion of ants and nem­at­odes. Bey­ond, he is a suc­cess­ful mar­tial artist teach­ing Kar­ate and an avid sci­ence communicator.

Con­tact: egsr@eseb.org

2023 – 2025

Oonagh Barker

Uni­ver­sity of East Anglia, UK

Oon­agh is a 1^st 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

Past Student Representatives

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

• 2022 – 2024  Vikt­or Kovalov, Uni­ver­sity of Zurich, CH
• 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