Thorsten Reusch

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Thorsten Burkhard Hanns Reusch (born July 21, 1965 in Herborn , Germany ) is a German ecologist and university professor .

Scientific career

Thorsten Reusch received his doctorate in 1994 at the Institute for Marine Science IFM in Kiel and then studied until 1997 as part of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and with the help of a DFG research grant at the Coastal Marine Institute San Diego , USA . He continued his studies until 1999 with a Marie Curie grant at the University of Groningen , the Netherlands . Between 1999 and 2001 he worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology in Plön . Thorsten Reusch received a further grant (Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation) from 2002 to 2005 for his research at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology in Plön. In 2005 he was offered a professorship for evolutionary ecology of plants at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster, at the Institute for Evolution & Biodiversity. In September 2008 he became head of the Evolutionary Ecology Research Unit of Marine Fish and he received a professorship for Marine Ecology at the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences , today's GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel . Since January 2012 he has been Head of Research Area 3 Marine Ecology and a member of the Board of Excellence in the Future Oceans Cluster of Excellence .

Research interests

In relation to his research, Thorsten Reusch is very interested in the topics of evolutionary biology and population genetics , marine genomics , biological effects of global change, marine invasion biology and host-parasite interactions.

Selected publications

  • Thorsten BH Reusch, Michael A. Häberli, Peter B. Aeschlimann and Manfred Milinski : Female sticklebacks count alleles in a strategy of sexual selection explaining MHC polymorphism. In: Nature . Volume 414, No. 6861, November 15, 2001, pp. 300-302, doi: 10.1038 / 35104547
  • K. Mathias Wegner, Martin Kalbe, Joachim Kurtz, Thorsten BH Reusch and Manfred Milinski: Parasite Selection for Immunogenetic Optimality. In: Science . Volume 301, No. 5638, September 5, 2003, p. 1343, doi: 10.1126 / science.1088293 .
  • Thorsten BH Reusch, Anneli Ehlers, August Hämmerli and Boris Worm: Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 102, No. 8, 2005, pp. 2826-2831, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0500008102
  • Thorsten BH Reusch and Troy E. Wood: Molecular Ecology of global change. In: Molecular Ecology. Volume 16, No. 19, 2007, pp. 3973-3992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Curriculum Vitae of Thorsten Reusch on the homepage of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel , accessed on August 19, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Reusch, Thorsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reusch, Thorsten BH; Reusch, Thorsten Burkhard Hanns (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ecologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Herborn