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Nadja Verspagen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki, affiliated with the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences and the Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme. Her research focuses on insect responses to environmental change related to human activities, particularly in the context of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Her work explores thermal plasticity across environmental clines, with publications on topics such as latitudinal gradients, diapause strategies in temperate butterflies, and phenotypic plasticity in insects. She is involved in the PLASTI-CITY project, funded by the Academy of Finland, which investigates urban evolution of seasonal plasticity.
- 2024: Recipient of the FBES Outstanding Article Award
- 2023: Published in Functional Ecology and Plants, People, Planet
- 2020: Published in Insect Science and Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Nadja has presented her research at international conferences, including the Third Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology and the Biology of Butterflies conference, and serves as a visiting researcher at the Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Greifswald in Germany (30 Sept–4 Oct 2024). She has also co-supervised Bachelor’s and short internships at the University of Helsinki.
