Svenja Heesch Explained

Svenja Heesch
Alma Mater:University of Otago
Thesis Title:Endophytic phaeophyceae from New Zealand
Thesis Url:http://hdl.handle.net/10523/10693
Thesis Year:2005
Doctoral Advisor:Catriona Hurd, Akira Peters
Occupation:algal taxonomist
Employer:Rostock University

Svenja Heesch is a German botanist, algologist, biogeographer, curator and explorer, and is a specialist in the taxonomy of algae families.

Academic career

In 2005 Heesch completed her Ph.D. at the University of Otago, supervised by Akira Peters and Catriona Hurd.[1] Prior to this she had completed a diploma at the Institute of Marine Science, Kiel University.[2] Heesch undertook postdoctoral research at NIWA before returning to Europe, where she has worked at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, the Ryan Institute of the National University of Ireland, and the Roscoff Biological Station, Brittany.[3] [4] [5] [6] Now based at the University of Rostock, Heesch has received funding to research the taxonomy of Prasiolaceae from the Svalbard archipelago, and to integrate molecular and morphological approaches to clarify relationships within the family.[7] [8]

Awards and honours

In 2018 Wendy Nelson and Judy Sutherland named a species of filamentous algae Prasionema heeschiae. Nelson and Sutherland wrote that "The specific epithet honours Svenja Heesch, our colleague who has made significant contributions to the study of the Prasiolales". It is the first recorded species of the genus Prasionema in the southern hemisphere, and was collected from Campbell Island.[9] [10]

Selected publications

References

  1. Heesch . Svenja . Endophytic phaeophyceae from New Zealand . 10 December 2005 . PhD . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/10693 . 15 August 2023 . 11 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230911191828/https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/10693 . live.
  2. Web site: Universität Rostock . Svenja Heesch - Angewandte Ökologie & Phykologie - Universität Rostock . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230209122521/https://www.angewandteoekologie.uni-rostock.de/team/svenja-heesch/ . 2023-02-09 . 2023-05-13 . www.angewandteoekologie.uni-rostock.de . de.
  3. Web site: Heesch & W.A. Nelson . S. . Nelson . W. A. . Wendy Nelson (marine scientist) . 2016 . Prasiola novaezelandiae . 30 March 2016 . English . 10 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200810220805/https://www.algaebase.org/search/species/detail/?species_id=142859 . live .
  4. Web site: Station Biologique de Roscoff . 2016 . Svenja Heesch, Roscoff. Phycology, Marine Biology, Botany. Dipl. Biol. PhD 22.70 . 30 March 2016 . English . 9 April 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160409211810/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Svenja_Heesch . live .
  5. Web site: 2016 . LABORATORY UMR8227. LABORATORY OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF MARINE MODELS . https://web.archive.org/web/20160412205010/http://www.sb-roscoff.fr/en/algal-genetics/group-members . 12 April 2016 . 30 March 2016 . English.
  6. Web site: Rostock . Universität . Svenja Heesch - Angewandte Ökologie & Phykologie - Universität Rostock . 2023-11-14 . www.angewandteoekologie.uni-rostock.de . en.
  7. Web site: AWIPEV: 2022 . 2023-11-14 . www.awipev.eu.
  8. Web site: DFG - GEPRIS - Integrated approaches to address taxonomic problems in the Prasiolaceae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) . 2023-11-14 . gepris.dfg.de.
  9. Nelson . Wendy A. . Sutherland . Judy E. . 2018-04-03 . Prasionema heeschiae sp. nov. (Prasiolales, Chlorophyta) from Campbell Island, New Zealand: first record of Prasionema in the southern hemisphere . European Journal of Phycology . en . 53 . 2 . 198–207 . 10.1080/09670262.2018.1423577 . 2018EJPhy..53..198N . 90343215 . 0967-0262.
  10. Web site: Prasionema heeschiae W.A.Nelson & J.E.Sutherland :: AlgaeBase . 2023-11-14 . www.algaebase.org.

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