Christoph Schöndorfer
PhD student, project staff
Hellbrunnerstraße 34
5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43(0)662 8044 5602
Room: C-2.013
Research interest
- Evolution and conservation of insects, esp. butterflies
- Population biology / population genomics
- Plant-animal interactions (esp. butterfly-host plant)
- Responses and possible adaptations to environmental change (transcriptomics, species distribution modelling, chemical ecology, geometric morphometrics)
Curriculum vitae
Professional Experience
- 2025 – ongoing: Freelance biologist for butterfly conservation
- Internships in different fields of applied conservation – lower conservation authority Berchtesgaden (2017, 2022), Engineering Office for Ecology IfÖ (2023)
- Affiliations in the entomological working group at Haus der Natur (natural history museum) Salzburg – since 2017, the herpetological working group – since 2021, and the nature conservation association LBV (Landesbund für Vogel- und Naturschutz Bayern) – since 2015
- Wildlife filmmaking and photographing
Education
- since 2026: Doctoral candidate in the doc.funds AlpsChange program, Project 7: Climate change effects on habitat distribution and plant-animal interactions; Department for Environment and Biodiversity, University of Salzburg, Austria
- 2023 – 2026: Master of Science Ecology and Evolution; University of Salzburg, Austria; Master’s thesis: “Population genomics of the scarce fritillary (Euphydryas maturna) with a focus on population connectivity“, Degree 1.0
- 2020 – 2023: Bachelor of Science Biology; University of Salzburg; Bachelor’s thesis: Mark-Release-Recapture study on the population dynamics of Bombina variegata (Fire-bellied toad); Degree 1.1
Bioinformatical skills
- Processing and analysing of genomic sequencing data
- Statistical data analysis in R
- Shell-Script, and basic knowledge in Python
- Geographic information system QGIS
Languages
- German
- English
