Alexandra A.E. van der Geer

Summary

My education is in Palaeontology, Indology (Languages and Cultures of South Asia) and Veterinary Medicine with a PhD in the first two subject areas. As a postdoctoral research fellow in Indology, I investigated the depiction and role of animals in art in South Asia during the past 4 millenia (ethnozoology). Since the early 2000s, my research focus is mainly on the evolution and extinction of mammals in isolation, including island biogeography and island ethnozoology, culminating in a textbook (Evolution of Island Mammals, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). As a postdoctoral researcher in zoology, I quantify and analyse micro-evolutionary changes (morphology, genetics) in introduced rats. Other fields of interests are evolutionary developmental aspects of the skeleton and the evolution of canids (wolves, dogs, foxes).

Biodiversity Biogeography Ecology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology