Dr. Oliver Yves Martin
Dr. Oliver Yves Martin
Lecturer at the Department of Biology
ETH Zürich
Additional information
Research area
The interplay of natural and sexual selection and how these forces affect biodiversity represents represents my main research area. In particular, I am currently studying how rapid environmental change affects population viability, reproductive isolation and extinction. This involves assessing effects of temperature and other important factors (e.g. inbreeding) on key reproductive traits. My research also focuses on evolutionary conflicts between and within species (sexual conflict, host-parasite conflict, reproductive parasites, selfish genetic elements). The impacts of all these processes on individuals and populations are assessed experimentally, mainly via experimental evolution using insect model systems.
2013-
Senior Researcher / Lecturer, ETH Zurich
2008-2013
SNF Ambizione Grant (ETH Zurich): 'Evolutionary Conflicts and their Impact on Speciation'.
2005-2008
NERC Senior Research Associate (University of East Anglia): 'Sexual selection and reproductive isolation in the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum'. [research grant to M. Gage, B. Emerson & O. Y. Martin]
2003-2005
SNF Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of East Anglia): 'Coevolution of male and female reproductive characters'.
2003
PhD in Zoology (University of Zurich): 'Sex and Flies: an Investigation of Sexual Conflict in Dung Flies'. With Dr. D. J. Hosken & Prof. Dr. P. I. Ward.
1999
Diploma in Zoology (University of Zurich): 'The mystacial vibrissae – morphological, functional, systematic and ecological aspects'. With Dr. M. Haffner & Prof. Dr. V. Ziswiler.
Course Catalogue
Spring Semester 2024
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 551-0001-AAL | General Biology I |
| 551-0002-00L | General Biology II |
| 551-0003-AAL | General Biology I+II |
| 551-0448-00L | Zoology |
| 701-0268-00L | Biodiversity Excursions |