DR. FLORIAN LEESE, DIPL.-BIOL. CURRICULUM VITAE, 2011

DR. FLORIAN LEESE, DIPL.-BIOL.
Ruhr University Bochum
Dept. of Animal Ecology,
Evolution and Biodiversity
D-44780 Bochum Germany
Phone: +49.234.32-25072
Fax: +49.234.32-14114
florian.leese@rub.de
CURRICULUM VITAE, 2011
Name: Florian Leese
Date of Birth: July 18th, 1978 in Lauterbach (Hesse, Germany)
Nationality: German
Marital Status: Married, one daughter
ACADEMIC CAREER
01/2011 – 07/2011 Guest researcher at the Ecosystems Group of British Antarctic Survey,
Cambridge, UK (Group leader: Dr. Dave Barnes)
since 12/2007 Scientific Assistant (Faculty staff) at the Department of Animal Ecology,
Evolution and Biodiversity (Head: Prof. Dr. Ralph Tollrian).
05/2004 – 06/2008 Dissertation at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
(Helmholtz Centre). Section: Functional Ecology. Until 08/2005: Dept. of
Systematic Zoology / University of Bochum.
Title: The recent evolutionary history of Antarctic and Subantarctic benthic
isopods: Development and Analysis of fast evolving molecular markers.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. J.-W. Wägele, Dr. C. Held, Prof. Dr. D. Begerow.
Grade: 1.0, „with disctinction“ (06/2008).
11/2006 1. State Examination (Highschool Teacher) for the subjects Biology/Sports.
Grade: “Very good“ (1.3).
05/2004 – 07/2004 Invited participant at the ‘International Collaboration to Sample Fishes
indigenous to Subantarctic Habitats’ (ICEFISH 2004) to the Antarctic and
Subantarctic with Prof. Dr. H.W. Detrich III (Northeastern University, Boston,
USA), funded by NSF.
03/2003 – 03/2004 Diplomathesis at the Max Planck Institute for Limnology and the Department
of Systematic Zoology at the University Bochum. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. R.
Wagner, Prof. Dr. J.-W. Wägele. Prof. Dr. H. Häupler.
Title: Molecular genetic, chemotaxonomic, and autecological investigations
of central European Sericostomatidae (Trichoptera).
Grade: 1.0, „with distinction“.
09/2001 – 03/2003 Studies of Biology (Diploma/State Examination) and Sports (State
Examination) at the Ruhr University Bochum.
07/2001 – 09/2001 Student Assistant at the Federal State University of Cuiaba (Brazil) as part of
the collaborative SHIFT project. Funded by Max Planck Institute for
Limnology (Plön, Germany). Project leader Dr. Karl Matthias Wantzen.
1999 – 2001 Student Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Limnology, River Station
Schlitz (Biodiversity Himalayan freshwater systems (Prof. Rüdiger Wagner).
10/1997 – 09/2001 Studies of Biology (Diploma) and Biology/Sports (State Examination) at the
Philipps University Marburg.
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HONOURS & AWARDS
• Elected member of the “Junges Kolleg” (Young Academia) of the North Rhine Westphalian
Academy of Sciences 2011.
• Elected fellow of the Global Young Faculty 2010, Co-Speaker of the Climate Group.
• Participant of the 60 th Nobel Laureate Meeting 2010 in Lindau.
• German academic exchange programme RISE 2007 grant (exchange student from
Canada: Anna Kop, University of Toronto).
• Dr.-Heinrich-Kost-Award (best dissertation 2008 in Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences
at the Ruhr University Bochum)
• Scientific Award of the Annette-Barthelt-Foundation for Marine Research 2009 (Federal
Ministry of Education and Research
• 2 nd Place Horst-Wiehe Award 2009 of the German Zoological Society
MEMBERSHIPS IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
German Zoological Society (DZG), European Society of Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), Society of
Systematic Biologists, The Crustacean Society (TCS), German Limnological Society (DGL)
SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS FOR JOURNALS (SELECTION)
Journal of Crustacean Biology, Deep-Sea Research, Ecography, Integrative and Comparative
Biology, Journal of Paleolimnology, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology, Marine Ecology Progr.
Series, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Marine Biology, Polar Biology.
UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Since 2008 I teach the following courses (selection only)
• G-Module population genetics and phylogenetics
• G-Module Stämme des Tierreichs – Invertebraten (Invertebrate Zoology)
• S-Module Biodiversität (Biodiversity)
• S-Module Evolutionsökologie (Evolutionary Ecology)
• S-Module Molecular Methods in Ecology and Evolution
• S-Module Taxonomie und Systematik (Taxonomy and Systematics)
UNIVERSITY SERVICES
• Representative of the research staff at the faculty board („Fakultätsrat“)
• Representative of the research staff at the PhD examination board
• Member of the advisory panel of the university's rectorate for PhD stipendships
PUBLICATIONS (3 SELECTED)
• Leese F, Agrawal S & Held C (2010): Long-distance island hopping without dispersal
stages: Transportation across major zoographic barriers in a Southern Ocean isopod.
Naturwissenschaften 97:583–594. (link to publisher)
• Krabbe K, Leese F (Co-First author), Mayer C, Tollrian R & Held C (2010): Cryptic
mitochondrial lineages in the widespread pycnogonid Colossendeis megalonyx Hoek, 1881
from Antarctic and Subantarctic waters. Polar Biology 33:271-280. (link to publisher)
• Leese F, Kop A, Wägele JW & Held C (2008): Cryptic speciation in a benthic isopod from
Patagonian and Falkland Island waters and the impact of glaciations on its population
structure. BMC Frontiers in Zoology, 5, e19. (link to publisher)
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