I am an evolutionary geneticist/ecologist/biologist, currently working at the University of Konstanz in the group of Prof Dr. Mark van Kleunen. Mating system evolution (loss of self-incompatibility) and polyploidy have been important themes in my research, but my broad interests also include the evolution of competitive ability and allelopathy in invasive species, and epigenetic inheritance. I work and have worked with a variety of study species, currently mainly including Arabidopsis lyrata and Arabis alpina. Other species I work with or have worked with recently are Brassica nigra, Mimulus guttatus, Solidago canadensis and S. gigantea, Gentiana asclepiadea