dr. DL (Diede) Maas

I am a lecturer and education coordinator at the Marine Animal Ecology (MAE) chair group. As a lecturer, I co-cooordinate and teach Research Methods for Marine Sciences (MAE21306) in the Bachelor Marine Sciences, and Marine Animal Ecology (MAE30306) and Scientific Diving (MAE10302 & MAE20803) in the Master Aquaculture and Marine Resource Management. 

Academic career:

I studied Marine Biology at Wageningen University where I worked on Portuguese man o' war morphology, effects of flatworms on soft corals, and mussel morphology from marine lakes in Indonesia. I continued the work on different populations in Indonesian marine lakes during my PhD. I was the first PhD candidate at the MAE group, starting right after its beginning in 2015. I studied population genetics, morphology and Island Biogeography Theory in the marine lakes, using a species of mussel, jellyfish and mussel. After my PhD I got the opportunity to join MAE as permanent staff.

Personal interests:

I am interested in the analysis and visualisation of all types of data. I think it's important to create visually engaging depictions of our research to spark the interest of fellow researchers and the public alike!