Department of Evolutionary Genetics: Staff

Name, Working group Position phone and e-mail
Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel Director and Head of department at IZW,
Chair of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at University of Potsdam		 phone: 030 5168 100 (Secretariat of the Director)
fickel@izw-berlin.de
fickel@uni-potsdam.de
Constanze Wiechert Assistant to the Head of Department phone: 030 5168 336
wiechert@izw-berlin.de
assist2@izw-berlin.de
Phylogeography, Wildlife Forensics
Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel Team leader fickel@izw-berlin.de
Anke Schmidt Technical assistant, Chief assistant,
Training officer for laboratory assistants		 phone: 030 5168 711
aschmidt@izw-berlin.de
Trait selection and Domestication, Wildlife Forensics
Prof. Dr. Arne Ludwig Team leader,
Professor at HU Berlin		 phone: 030 5168 312
ludwig@izw-berlin.de
Jette Ziep Technical assistant phone: 030 5168 711
ziep@izw-berlin.de
Evolutionary and Conservation Genomics
Dr. Camila Mazzoni Team leader at IZW and BeGenDiv phone: 030 83859961
mazzoni@izw-berlin.de
Susan Mbedi Head of the genomics laboratory at BeGenDiv/ project coordination Tel: 030 83859968
mbedi@izw-berlin.de
Linda Hagberg Research fellow hagberg@izw-berlin.de
Mariella Butti Research fellow butti@izw-berlin.de
Wylerson Guimarães Nogueira Research fellow nogueira@izw-berlin.de
Conservation Genomics
Dr. Daniel Förster Team leader phone: 030 5168 311
foerster@izw-berlin.de
Cristóbal Valenzuela Turner PhD student phone: 030 5168 338
valenzuela@izw-berlin.de
Wildlife Epigenetics
Dr. Alexandra Weyrich Team leader phone: 030 5168 313
weyrich@izw-berlin.de
Susanne Auls Technical assistant phone: 030 5168 711
auls@izw-berlin.de
Assist-Prof. Joanna Sudyka Research fellow sudyka@izw-berlin.de
Colin Vullioud Scientist (freelance)  
Julie Bitzer MSc student bitzer@izw-berlin.de
Jonas Schulz MSc student schulz@izw-berlin.de
Modelling life history evolution
Dr. Alexandre Courtiol Team leader phone: 030 5168 331
courtiol@izw-berlin.de
Vladislav Marcuk PhD student marcuk@izw-berlin.de
Diego De Panis Scientist panis@izw-berlin.de
Bioinformatics
Dorina Meneghini Scientist, Bioinformatician phone: 030 5168 340
meneghini@izw-berlin.de
EAZA BioBank
Prof. Dr. Jörns Fickel Hub leader (EAZA BioBank Working Group) phone: 030 5168 100
fickel@izw-berlin.de
Anke Schmidt Curator of EAZA BioBank (IZW-hub), curator of ARCHE collection phone: 030 5168 711
aschmidt@izw-berlin.de

Last updated on 7 July 2026