Brandon Samuel Whitley

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• CV

Education

2022-Ongoing

- PhD Fellowship in Arctic Plant Diversity and Pollination Networks, the Natural History Museum of Denmark (NHMD), University of Copenhagen

2020-2022

-Dual MSc Program - Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Evolutionary Biology

- MSc in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

- MSc in Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution from The University of Montpellier, France

• Thesis 1: Invasive mtDNA-haplotypes of the freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii: response to environmental variation in polyp clones and potential for interspecific mating of medusae (Prof. Dr. H. Stibor and Dr. S. Gießler, LMU)

 

• Thesis 2: An integrated population model methodology for incorporating the effect of inbreeding on fecundity in Svalbard reindeer (Dr. B. Hansen, Dr. H. Jensen, and Dr. A Lee, NTNU)

 

• Additional Research Project: Modelling the phenotypic optimum and maladaptation of bud break date plasticity of Oak and Beech ( I. Chuine, U. of Montpellier)

2017-2020

- BSc Hons. cum laude in Global Sustainability Science from Utrecht University, The Netherlands with a major in Water, Climate, and Ecosystem Science

• Thesis: The socio-ecological link between biodiversity patterns and food security in Southwestern Ethiopia (Dr. I. Dorresteijn, Utrecht University)
• Graduate of the Utrecht University Geosciences Honours College and the Da Vinci Project Honours Program

 

Additional TA/RA Experience

2017-2022

• Teaching assistant for Utrecht University course “Chemistry of the System Earth”
• Teaching assistant for Utrecht University course “Natural Processes”
• Research intern at the Utrecht University Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology
• Research assistant at the Utrecht University Urban Futures Studio
• Rapporteur for EU-PolarNet conference on Recommendations towards an Integrated Polar Observing System

Fieldwork Experience

2020-2022

• Svalbard, Norway fieldwork on Snow Bunting population monitoring & vegetation experiments
• Bavaria, Germany fieldwork on freshwater jellyfish sampling
• Puéchabon, France fieldwork on experimental forest site monitoring

2017-2020

• Texel, The Netherlands fieldwork on plant surveying along salination gradients
• Kempen-Broek, Belgium fieldwork on ecohydrological restoration