Teaching

My teaching

I am teaching at the University of Amsterdam at the BSc and MSc level. Below you'll find more information about the courses that I am involved, an overview of recent BSc and MSc projects that I have supervised, and opportunities for students and Postdocs to get involved in ongoing projects.

Courses

From 2022 onward, my teaching at the University of Amsterdam is mainly centered on the following MSc course:

  • Global Ecology and Biodiversity: I am the coordinator of this course within the track Ecology & Evolution of the MSc in Biological Sciences (first time offered in December 2018). The course is focused on modelling global biodiversity and species distributions using large ecological and environmental datasets (especially using the R software and ArcGIS). It is a block course (4 weeks) and runs each year in December, with a maximum capacity of 30 students.

Opportunities for students and Postdocs

I welcome highly motivated BSc and MSc students as well as PhD students and postdocs to develop research projects under my supervision and guidance. If you are interested, then get in touch with me. Before doing that, please review my webpages and read some of my papers to understand what I am doing. With your enquiry, please send a CV, an overview of previous grades, and a statement about your research interest, your motivation and specific skills (e.g. related to programming, modelling, software, GIS knowledge, database handling). Please be aware that funding is very limited (e.g. for PhD and Postdocs). I am open to discuss the writing of joint grant proposals for hosting post-doctoral research fellows in my lab. When inquiring about opportunities please make sure that your project falls clearly within the scope of my research.