Department of Evolutionary Genetics: Staff

Name, Working group	Position	phone and e-mail
Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel	Director and Head of department at IZW, Chair of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at University of Potsdam	phone: 030 5168 100 (Secretariat of the Director) fickel@izw-berlin.de fickel@uni-potsdam.de
Constanze Wiechert	Assistant to the Head of Department	phone: 030 5168 336 wiechert@izw-berlin.de assist2@izw-berlin.de
Phylogeography, Wildlife Forensics
Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel	Team leader	fickel@izw-berlin.de
Anke Schmidt	Technical assistant, Chief assistant, Training officer for laboratory assistants	phone: 030 5168 711 aschmidt@izw-berlin.de
Malena Braun	MSc student
Trait selection and Domestication, Wildlife Forensics
Prof. Dr. Arne Ludwig	Team leader, Professor at HU Berlin	phone: 030 5168 312 ludwig@izw-berlin.de
Dr. Olga Malysheva	Scientist	phone: 030 5168 341 malisheva@izw-berlin.de
Jette Ziep	Technical assistant	phone: 030 5168 711 ziep@izw-berlin.de
Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics
Dr. Camila Mazzoni	Team leader at IZW and BeGenDiv	phone: 030 83859961 mazzoni@izw-berlin.de
Susan Mbedi	Head of the genomics laboratory at BeGenDiv/ project coordination	Tel: 030 83859968 mbedi@izw-berlin.de
Luísa Schlude Marins	Science Communicatin Officer, BeGenDiv	phone: 030 83859960 schlude@izw-berlin.de
Dr. Thomas Fullerton Brown	PostDoc, Scientist, BeGenDiv	phone: 030 83859960 brown@izw-berlin.de
Dr. Diego De Panis	PostDoc, Scientist, BeGenDiv	phone: 030 83859960 panis@izw-berlin.de
Linda Hagberg	Stipendiat	hagberg@izw-berlin.de
Dr. Luana Nara	PostDoc, Scienist, BeGenDiv	nara@izw-berlin.de
Conservation Genomics
Dr. Daniel Förster	Team leader	phone: 030 5168 311 foerster@izw-berlin.de
Cristóbal Valenzuela Turner	PhD student	phone: 030 5168 338 valenzuela@izw-berlin.de
Gloria Saldanha	MSc student	phone: 030 5168 338 saldanha@izw-berlin.de
Vanessa Norden	MSc student
Wildlife Epigenetics
Dr. Alexandra Weyrich	Team leader	phone: 030 5168 334 weyrich@izw-berlin.de
Susanne Auls	Technical assistant	phone: 030 5168 711 auls@izw-berlin.de
Colin Vullioud	Scientist (freelance)
Julie Bitzer	MSc student
Jonas Schulz	MSc student
Modelling life history evolution
Dr. Alexandre Courtiol	Team leader	phone: 030 5168 331 courtiol@izw-berlin.de
Bioinformatics
Dorina Meneghini	Scientist, Bioinformatician	phone: 030 5168 340 meneghini@izw-berlin.de
EAZA BioBank
Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel	Hub leader (EAZA BioBank Working Group)	phone: 030 5168 100 fickel@izw-berlin.de
Anke Schmidt	Curator of EAZA BioBank (IZW-hub), curator of ARCHE collection	phone: 030 5168 711 aschmidt@izw-berlin.de

Last updated on April, 28th, 2025