Florian Braig. Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich, Biocenter, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany. (Corresponding author) braig@bio.lmu.de
Florian Braig studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), with a focus in evolution and ecology. He started his doctoral studies at the same institute in 2021, working on the palaeontology, evolution and development of Malacostraca with a focus on Meiura. He has so far worked on different extant and fossil predatory representatives of Euarthropoda, including crabs, mantis shrimps, thylacocephalan crustaceans, beetles, and lacewing larvae. He currently focuses on statistical analyses and geometric morphometrics on evolution and development of Euarthropoda.
Gabriela Torres. Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Polar- Und Meeresforschung, 27498, Helgoland, Germany. Gabriela.Torres@awi.de
Senior Scientist at Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany. My research line focusses mainly on ecophysiology of crustaceans. In particular, we assess responses of early life stages to environmental variables (e.g., temperature, marine heat waves, salinity, food availability) in native and non-native species.
Luis Giménez. Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Polar- Und Meeresforschung, 27498, Helgoland, Germany and School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, LL59 5AB, UK. luis.gimenez@awi.de
Senior Lecturer in marine biology at Bangor University (School of Ocean Sciences). His work focuses on benthic community ecology and biology of marine species with complex life cycles. He combines field monitoring, experiments, statistical methods and modelling to understand responses of marine organisms to environmental variation, the dynamics of marine populations and the causes of patterns of community structure and dynamics.
Joachim T. Haug. Faculty of Biology, LMU Munich, Biocenter, Großhaderner Str. 2, 82152 Planegg-Martinsried, Germany and GeoBio-Center of the LMU Munich, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. jhaug@biologie.uni-muenchen.de
Joachim T. Haug studied animal ecology (major), sociobiology and palaeontology (minors) at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. After the receipt of the Diplom in 2005, he moved to the work group Biosystematic Documentation at the University of Ulm for his PhD thesis. There he worked on the early crustaceans from the Cambrian 'Orsten', which are preserved three-dimensionally and with minute details. To make the entire morphology clearly visible, Joachim produced computer-based 3D models for each developmental stage of a species, resulting in a 4D model of the species. With 4D models reconstructed for the different species, differences in the developmental pattern between the species became visible. These changes in the developmental timing, so-called heterochronic events must have occurred several times during early crustacean evolution. Due to these findings, Joachim got interested in studying such evolutionary changes of development also in fossils from other deposits and focussed on Palaeo-Evo-Devo (see also http://www.palaeo-evo-devo.info). After his defense in 2009 and two further years as postdoctoral researcher in Ulm, he received two Feodor Lynen research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, with which he was doing research at Yale University and at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. Besides 3D modelling, Joachim is also interested in different methods of imaging (documentation and presentation). In September 2013, he relocated to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. In April 2018 Joachim became a Lichtenberg professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
