Dr. rer. nat. Jamileh Javidpour
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Research Unit 3: Marine Ecology
Experimental Ecology - Food Webs
Duesternbrooker Weg 20
24105 Kiel (Germany)
email: jjavid(at)geomar.de
Career Highlights
Coordinating a Horizon 2020 project (GoJelly, TB of 6 million €), recommended patent (Flow2Vortex), over 3000 magazines, newspapers, radios and TV interviews, teaching activities and coordinating middle-sized research cruises (ALKOR and POSEIDON)
Employment
| 2013-2018 | Staff Scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Department of Food Web Ecology. PI of the research group “Jellyfish Ecology” at GEOMAR | ||
| 2010-2013 | Postdoc position (funded by DFG) at GEOMAR | ||
| 2009-2010 | Scientific Site-Coordinator of MESOAQUA (Network of leading MESOcosm facilities to advance the studies of future AQUAtic ecosystems from the Arctic to the Mediterranean) at GEOMAR | ||
| 2001 | Curator at the Natural History Museum, Tehran, Iran | ||
Education
| 2004-2008 | PhD at Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IfM-GEOMAR), University of Kiel, Germany. Funded by Iranian scholarship program. Supervisors: Prof. Ulrich Sommer, Prof. Maarten Boersma.Thesis: Ecological assessment of the Ctenophore Invader Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Western Baltic Sea. | ||
| 1998-2002 | MSc in Marine Fish Biology at Tarbiat-Modarres University, Tehran, Iran. Supervisor: Prof. Wosughi. Thesis: Taxonomic Identification of Fish and Fish Larvae of the Iranian Museum of Natural History. | ||
| 1993-1997 | BSc in Biology (Zoology), Gorgan University of Agricultural & Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran. | ||
| 1992 | High school degree in Mathematics and Physics | ||
Recent Publications
- Filipa Paiva, Andrea Barco, Yiyong Chen, Alireza Mirzajani, Farrah T. Chan, Velda Lauringson, Miguel Baltazar-Soares, Aibin Zhan, Sarah A. Bailey, Jamileh Javidpour and Elizabeta Briski (2018) Is salinity an obstacle for biological invasions? Global Change Biology, accepted.
- Katharina Tissy Bading, Sarah Kaehlert, Xupeng Chi, Cornelia Jaspersc, Mark Q. Martindale, and Jamileh Javidpour, (2017) Food availability drives plastic self-repair response in a basal metazoan- case study on the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz 1865, Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 16419 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16346-w.
- Merten V, Christiansen B, Javidpour J, Piatkowski U, Puebla O, Gasca R, et al. (2017) Diet and stable isotope analyses reveal the feeding ecology of the orangeback squid Sthenoteuthis pteropus (Steenstrup 1855) (Mollusca, Ommastrephidae) in the eastern tropical Atlantic. PLoS ONE 12(12): e0189691. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189691
- Tamara Shiganove, Fabien Lombard, Martin Lilley, Viacheslav Krememetsky, Dror Angel, Bella Galil, Delphine Bonnet, Floriane Delpy, Ulrich Sommer, Jamileh Javidpour, Juan Carlos Molinero, Melek Isinibilir Okyar, Alenka Malej, Epaminondas Christou, Loanna Siokou, Macarena Marambio, Veronica Fuentes, Zinaida Mirsoyan, Nurcin Gülsahin, Adaptive strategies of Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 in different environments of the Eurasian Seas, Progress in Oceanography, accepted with minor corrections.
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Jaspers et al. Ocean current connectivity propelling secondary spread of a marine invader across western Eurasia, under Rev. by Global Ecology and Biogeography.
