Svenja Tidau
Bangor University
Welsh Crucible 2024
Svenja is a marine biologist and since October 2023 lecturer in Wildlife Ecology at the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences, Bangor University. She obtained a Dutch-German BSc in Public Administration and an Erasmus Mundus MSc in Environmental Science, Policy and Management, which was followed by working in nature conservation for two years. Much of her research focusses on how global change (anthropogenic noise, light) affects coastal marine ecosystems and underlying basic biology (night-time ecology, biological rhythms). For her PhD at the University of Plymouth, she examined the behavioural effects of anthropogenic noise on hermit crabs. As a postdoctoral researcher, she quantified impacts of artificial light at night (ALAN) across a range of intertidal species measuring reproduction, physiology, larvae survival, development, and growth. In the future, Svenja is keen to combine her interdisciplinary research and experience to explore scope for global change mitigation, wildlife conservation, and building resilience to climate change.