Welcome

The group Räsänen is part of the Institute of Integrative Biology at ETH and Department of Aquatic Ecology at Eawag. The group focuses on understanding evolutionary processes acting at ecological time scales. The main focus is on the role of maternal effects in responses to environmental change, the role of gene flow and adaptive divergence in ecological reproductive isolation, and determinants of geographic variation in stress tolerance and life-histories. The study systems include amphibians adapting to environmental acidification, three-spine sticklebacks adapting to ecologically divergent environments and aquatic alpine macroinvertebrate responses to glacial retreat.

The group has national as well as international collaborators around the northern hemisphere (including McGill University, Canada, University of Helsinki, Finland, Uppsala University, Sweden and Holar University College, Iceland).

M.Sc. students and undergraduates are welcomed.

Visit Katja Räsänen's website for more information.