Franzi currently studies rapid evolutionary responses in Daphnia magna to heat waves. In particular, she is trying to tease apart the importance of genetic diversity, plasticity and epigenetics for population subsistence in the face of a changing environment. Her general research interests are the links between ecological and evolutionary dynamics, particularly in the context of plasticity evolution and of host-parasite interactions.

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• Since Oct 2016 PostDoc at University of Liverpool
• 2016 PhD awarded, title: Parasitism along the speciation continuum – Variation of parasite effects across speciation stages of Gasterosteus aculeatus and their modification by environmental changes
• 2014-2016 PhD student at Queen Mary University of London
• 2012-2014 PhD student at Geomar Helmhotz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
• 2010 -2012 MSc at ETH Zürich, major in Ecology and Evolution