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

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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