Eawag Researcher wins Dutch Zoology Prize

The Eawag researcher Martine Maan received the Dutch Zoology Prize of the Royal Dutch Zoological Society (KNDV) last week. The prize has been awarded to Dr. Martine Maan "in acknowledgement of her high-quality research on speciation and sexual selection in Dendrobatidae and cichlids". The title of her scientific publication is "On the selective forces that drive the origin, maintenance and evolutionary consequences of animal color diversity".

Martine Maan is a post doc at Eawag since 2008. She works in the research laboratory in Kastanienbaum/Canton Lucerne in the group Biodiversity Dynamics of Prof. Ole Seehausen, who was awarded with the same prize in 1998.

The prize sum is 2000 Euro. Last Friday, 11 June 2010, a symposium for presenting the 2010 Dutch Zoology Prize with the topic "Speciation" was organized in Leiden/Netherlands.