Dr Svenja Tidau

Role

I am Postdoctoral Researcher for the NERC funded Project on Artificial Light Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems (ALICE).

My research focusses on sensory ecology of marine organisms and how anthropogenic pollutants such as noise and light alter behaviour and development.

For ALICE I investigate the impacts of artificial light at night on coastal organisms, their development and interactions.

In my PhD I worked on the behavioural impacts of anthropogenic noise on the European hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus at the University of Plymouth (UK) and the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Ireland). In lab and field experiments I found that anthropogenic noise acts across sensory modalities and interferes with natural cues and signals used in individual and group behaviour.

Qualifications

University of Manchester (UK), Lund University (Sweden), Central European University (Hungary), University of the Aegean (Greece)

2006 - 2010 BSc./ BA: Public Administration special emphasis: European Studies and Sustainable Development
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (Germany), Universiteit Twente (The Netherlands)

Professional membership

Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour

British Ecological Society

Marine Biological Association