Dagmar Frisch

Dagmar Frisch is a Researcher at IGB Berlin in the Department of Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology. She holds a PhD in Biology from Freie Universität Berlin and has held research and academic positions across Germany, Spain, the UK, and the USA. Her current research integrates environmental genomics, paleoecology, and eco-physiology to study evolutionary adaptation in aquatic ecosystems using ancient DNA from sediment archives.

• PhD in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 2000
• Diploma in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 1995

Her research focuses on evolutionary and molecular ecology, particularly in sentinel species such as Daphnia and Artemia. She uses resurrection ecology and genomic tools to understand how aquatic organisms adapt to environmental and climate change. Her work spans from field ecology to bioinformatics, emphasizing biodiversity modeling and population genomics.

Recent publications highlight trends in climate adaptation, DNA damage assessment in dormant stages, FAIR data pipelines in epigenetics, and the role of hydroperiod in zooplankton diversity. Her studies frequently appear in high-impact journals such as Global Change Biology, Molecular Ecology Resources, and Ecology and Evolution, and she has contributed to large collaborative efforts in meiofauna research.

Dagmar Frisch has no listed scientific awards in the provided text.

She has served as an Associate Editor for Environmental DNA since 2018 and is leading a DFG-funded project titled 'Living time capsules: tracing evolutionary adaptation in a changing world'. She has collaborated extensively with researchers in the US and Europe and has advised or collaborated on numerous publications, though no formal students are listed. She has also contributed to book chapters on copepod genetics and life history.

She is involved in research groups focused on Disease Evolutionary Ecology and Molecular Ecology and Genomics at IGB Berlin.