Team

Emilia Jarochowska
Principal Investigator
Utrecht University
email: e.b.jarochowska [at] uu.nl
Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/EBJarochowska
ORCID: 0000-0001-8937-9405

Xianyi Liu
Postdoctoral researcher
Utrecht University
email: x.liu6 [at] uu.nl
Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/XLiu6
ORCID: 0000-0002-3851-116X

Niklas Hohmann
PhD student
Utrecht University
email: n.h.hohmann [at] uu.nl
Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/NHohmann
ORCID: 0000-0003-1559-1838

Hanno Spreeuw
Research Software Engineer
Netherlands eScience Center
email: h.spreeuw [at] esciencecenter.nl
Web page: www.esciencecenter.nl/team/dr-hanno-spreeuw/
ORCID: 0000-0002-5057-0322

Johan Hidding
Research Software Engineer
Netherlands eScience Center
email: j.hidding [at] esciencecenter.nl
Web page: www.esciencecenter.nl/team/johan-hidding-msc/

Charlotte Summers
Research Software Engineer
Utrecht University
email: c.summers [at] uu.nl
Web page: www.uu.nl/staff/CSummers

Collaborators

Peter Burgess Collaborator University of Liverpool Web page: www.liverpool.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/staff/peter-burgess ORCID: 0000-0002-3812-4231

David De Vleeschouwer Collaborator Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Web page: www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeontologie/erdsystemforschung/staff/DeVleeschouwer ORCID: 0000-0002-3323-807X

Rachel Warnock Collaborator Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Web page: https://www.gzn.nat.fau.de/palaeontologie/team/professors/rachel-warnock/

Students

Current

Myrthe van der Heide, MSc thesis “Jurassic and Cretaceous fossil decapod ecologies based on geometric morphometrics”

Past

Pelle Huizinga

BSc thesis 2026 “Edge-concentrated change and meadow consolidation: 82 years of seagrass patch dynamics on the western Caicos Bank”, co-supervised by Xianyi Liu

Kevin Deenik

BSc thesis 2026 “How have the classes and their patch characteristics changed over the last 80 years? Assessment based on aerial and satellite imagery from the Turks and Caicos”, co-supervised by Xianyi Liu

Thodoris Tsaveas

MSc thesis 2026 “Reconstruction of spatial and temporal changes of marine facies in the Bahamas through topological data analysis”, co-supervised by Xianyi Liu

Dennis Lutgens

MSc thesis 2026 “Tracing the geomorphological transformation of shallow-water environments in the Bahamas: From 1940s aerial photos to modern satellite imagery”, co-supervised by Xianyi Liu

Bruno Peeters

BSc thesis “The fossil falls far from the tree: how biases in the fossil record skew phylogenetic trees. A review summarizing and evaluating the obstacles/barriers to incorporating the fossil record in phylogenetic tree reconstruction” and internship “Recovering close ancestors to descendants. A report looking at the recoverability of sampled ancestors under the FBD process”, co-supervised by Niklas Hohmann

Julia Szpor University College Utrecht

BSc thesis 2026 “Extinct or Left Without Saying Goodbye? Ecological Bias in the Late Devonian Mass Extinction”, co-supervised by Niklas Hohmann

Anna Jansen

University College Utrecht

BSc thesis 2025, on modelling the effects of ecological niches on the record of mass extinctions, co-supervised by Niklas Hohmann

Sidney Bickerton

Guided research 2025 “Last occurrence of species in a carbonate platform based on varying environmental conditions”, co-supervised by Niklas Hohmann

Laurent Puyana

University of Florida

Internship (2025): Historical changes in the distribution of ecological facies in the Bahamas, co-supervised by Xianyi Liu

Robin L.C. Pijnenburg

BSc thesis (2023): A high-resolution record of Devonian conodont evolution, co-supervised by Niklas Hohmann

Twan Megens

BSc thesis (2023): Evidence of microevolution of Tripodellus gracilis during the Famennian anoxic events in Kowala quarry in the Holy Cross mountains, Poland, co-supervised by Niklas Hohmann