Nico Michiels

Nico Michiels is a Professor in Animal Evolutionary Ecology at the Institute of Evolution and Ecology within the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Tuebingen, Germany. He has held this position since 2004, following prior professorships at the University of Münster (1999-2004) and a research leadership role at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioural Physiology (1993-1999).

His academic background includes a PhD from the University of Antwerp (1989) on odonate population ecology, undergraduate graduation from the same institution (1984), and postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Sheffield (UK, 1992) and Limburgs Universitair Centrum (Belgium, 1990-1991).

Prof. Michiels' research centers on sexual systems evolution with four primary active projects:

• The evolution of hermaphrodite mating systems
• The evolution of sexuality
• Sexual conflict dynamics
• Function and mechanisms of red fluorescence in marine fishes

No scientific awards or student advisement details were specified in the source material. He leads the Animal Evolutionary Ecology research group at Tuebingen and maintains academic profiles on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and ORCID.