PhD students

PhD students and projects at DTU Aqua within the research area Population Dynamics and Stock Assessments.

Previous PhD students within the research area Marine Populations and Ecosystem Dynamics

Costanza Cappelli
Physical processes affecting stock dynamics of blue whiting in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean

Paco Rodriguez-Tress
Optimizing important pelagic fish resources by using data from commercial vessels and acoustics

Amalia Papapostolou
Trophic transfer efficiency in the pelagic food chain: A carbon odyssey

Antoni Vivó Pons
Trends and projections in invasive ecology: how susceptible to invasion are our marine ecosystems?

Marcel Montanyès Solé
Marine fish diversity patterns, drivers and underlying processes – Present status and predictions under climate change

Louise C. Flensborg
Resilience and vulnerability of marine fish communities to change

Regitze Benedicte Carlstedt Lundgreen
Spatial and temporal dynamics of movements in eastern Atlantic cod

Christian Kiær
Fish stock recruitment and marine ecological prediction

Kjetil Gjeitsund Thorvaldsen
Population ecology of mesopelagic fishes

Rémy Denéchère
Metabolism, pace of life, and the dynamics of size-structured populations and communities. The case of fast-living squid

Peter Fink-Jensen
Stock structure and connectivity of capelin (Mallotus villosus) in Greenland: Otolith microchemistry used to track past whereabouts of a small, pelagic fish

Camila Serra Pompei
Trait-based models of plankton communities: from individuals to ecosystem functions

Neil Maginnis
The biogeography of Scleractinian reef corals: evidence from beta diversity

Aurore Maureaud
Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in marine communities, Evidence from large-scale observations and modeling

Trondúr Jónsson Kragesteen
Lice Management in Salmon Aquaculture, Using the Faroe Islands as a case site

Esther Beukhof
Trait-environment relationships in marine fish. An exploration of patterns, drivers and assembly processes shaping marine fish communities

Tim Spaanheden Dencker
Do traits follow taxonomy? Biodiversity and community assembly in marine ecosystems

Rob van Gemert
Improving the calculation of fisheries reference points

Paulus Inekela Kainge
Environmental effects on the availability of shallow and deep water hake to the demersal trawl survey in Namibian Waters

Laurène Pécuchet
A trait-based approach to understanding marine communities’ composition, assembly and diversity

Philip Brun
Plankton biogeography. An exploration of patterns, drivers, functions, and predictability

Daniel Jiro Ayala
The early life of the European eel in the ichthyoplankton community of the Sargasso Sea

Nis Sand Jacobsen
Big fish or small fish: size based methods to evaluate direct and indirect ecosystem effects of fishing 

Stavroula Tsoukali 
Fisheries oceanography of northern pelagic fish species

Christian Lindemann
The role of deep convection on the dynamics of the North Atlantic phytoplankton community

Christina Frisk
Physiology, phenology and behavioral strategies of forage fish studied through bioenergetic modeling

Hannes Höffle
Spatial patterns in the distribution and early life characteristics of North Sea cod

Nuria Calduch Verdiell
Protecting the larger fish: an ecological, economical and evolutionary analysis using a demographic model