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Feb 25, 2026 Presented ongoing work on invasion genomics of the Quagga mussel in Switzerland at the PEAK Kurs Eawag: Quaggamuschel in der Schweiz: aktueller Wissensstand und Weiterentwicklung von Präventions- und Monitoringmassnahmen (Dübendorf, 25 February 2026).
Sep 26, 2025 Presented my research on the Quagga mussel invasion at the MoFA-Tagung 2025 in Linz, Austria, where I was awarded a fellowship for the project “Invasion genetics of the quagga mussel: Global and regional dispersal dynamics using whole-genome sequencing.”
Sep 19, 2025 Received the Best Poster Award at the Eawag Symposium 2025 for the poster “Beneath the Surface: Exploring Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Lake Zurich”.
May 22, 2025 Research on the Quagga mussel invasion in Lake Zurich covered by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).
May 01, 2025 Co-organized the Eawag PhD Symposium 2025.
May 01, 2025 Interviewed by TeleZ about the discovery of Quagga mussels in Lake Zurich and the ongoing invasion dynamics research.
Feb 01, 2025 Presented a poster on benthic macroinvertebrate communities at Biology25 at EPFL, Lausanne.
Dec 19, 2024 Featured in an SRF 1 television interview about the Quagga mussel invasion in Swiss lakes.
Nov 01, 2024 Received the Hydrology–Limnology Prize for Best Master Thesis 2024 (3,000 CHF) from the Hydrobiologie-Limnologie-Stiftung für Gewässerforschung for my thesis on the conservation genomics of Anodonta anatina in Switzerland.
Sep 01, 2024 Discovered Quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) in Lake Zurich for the first time during benthic field surveys, the first recorded occurrence in the lake.