Aquatic Ecology & Evolution

About Me

I am an evolutionary ecologist interested in the evolution of life history strategies. I use mathematical models to study evolutionary problems in an ecological setting.

Short summary of my project at Eawag

My objective is to study the eco-evolutionary dynamics of ecological speciation and speciation reversal in Alpine whitefish species (Coregonus spp.), taking into account that an individual’s growth, development, and reproduction is highly influenced by resource availability. I am interested in unravelling the mechanisms that initiate and maintain species diversity. Since whitefish populations are of significant commercial value and highly influenced by fisheries management, I am especially interested in the anthropogenic processes that create and change whitefish species diversity.

Curriculum Vitae
2020 - present Postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland & Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland
2018 - 2019 Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland
2013 - 2018 PhD in Theoretical Ecology at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

cum laude / with distinction

Publications

ten Brink, H.; Onstein, R. E.; de Roos, A. M. (2020) Habitat deterioration promotes the evolution of direct development in metamorphosing species, Evolution, International Journal of Organic Evolution, 74(8), 1826-1850, doi:10.1111/evo.14040

Klein, K.; Kokko, H.; ten Brink, H. (2021) Disentangling verbal arguments: intralocus sexual conflict in haplodiploids, American Naturalist, 198(6), 679-693, doi:10.1086/716908