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Dr. Charlotte HAVERMANS

Born March 26th 1984, Diest, Belgium Am Handelshafen 12 Nationality: Belgian Raum A-1140 Civil status: Married 27570 Bremerhaven Languages: Dutch, French, English, German Tel: +49 (0)471 4831 1530 M: +49 (0)157 377 144 24 PhD graduation: 03 Dec 2012  [email protected] h-index (Google scholar): 15 ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1126-4074

Education and Research experience

11/2019 – 10/2025: Leader of the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group “ARJEL – Arctic jellies” at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in collaboration with the University of Bremen (Germany). 03/2019 – 11/2019: Maternity leave 10/2018 – 09/2019: German Science Foundation (DFG) own postdoc position, Uni Bremen and AWI 10/2015 – 09/2018: German Science Foundation (DFG) own postdoc position, Uni Bremen and AWI 04/2015 – 09/2015: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Junior Fellowship, HWK Centre of Advanced Studies in Delmenhorst, in collaboration with AWI 04/2014 – 04/2015: Postdoc position in Antarctic genomics, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Belgium 10/2013 – 04/ 2014: Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) Fellowship, research stay at the AWI 2013: Research stays: BIOICE Centre, Sandgerði and the Marine Biology Laboratory, Reykjavik, Iceland & Scott Polar Research Institute, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Cambridge, UK 04/2013 – 06/2013: Editorial assistant of the “Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean”, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium 10/2007 – 12/2012: PhD student, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium PhD thesis title: “DNA barcoding, phylogeography and phylogeny of the Lysianassoidea (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Southern Ocean and the World’s deep seas” No PhD grade system in Belgian Universities 07/2012: Research stay, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 08/2009 – 09/2009: PhD course, “Benthic Fauna of Svalbard”, University of Svalbard, Norway 09/2006 – 09/2007: Master studies, “Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies”, topic Marine Biology Master thesis title: “Orchomenella cavimanus (Crustacea: Amphipoda): a eurybathic circum-Antarctic species or a complex of cryptic species? A morphological and molecular approach” Summa cum laude 08/2005 – 12/2005: Student exchange, autumn semester in Biology and Anthropology at the Université Laval, Québec, Canada 09/2002 – 09/2006: 1st and 2nd cycle in Biological Sciences, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Curriculum Vitae 2021 Charlotte Havermans 2 of 6

Diploma thesis title: “Biodiversity of the shipwrecks on the Belgian Continental Shelf: the life history and dispersal method of the amphipod Jassa herdmani” Summa cum laude

Competitive external research funding (3) Total = ca. 2,583,000 EUR

2021: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): “Sight unseen: Elucidating the trophic role and metapopulation structure of Southern Ocean gelatinous zooplankton using DNA metabarcoding”. 2 years postdoctoral position and consumables University of Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Florian Leese) and AWI ca. 190,000 EUR 2018: Helmholtz Young Investigator Group with the project “Arctic Jellies: Impact of gelatinous zooplankton communities on changing Arctic ecosystems”. 6 years Junior Group leader position + 3 PhDs + 1 PostDoc + 1 Technical Assistant and consumables: 1,800,000 EUR 2018: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) “Eigene Stelle” with the project “Is the hyperiid amphipod Themisto gaudichaudii poised to displace krill in the warming region of the Southern Ocean?” 1 year postdoctoral position and consumables: 100,250 EUR 2015: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) “Eigene Stelle” with the project “Is the hyperiid amphipod Themisto gaudichaudii poised to displace krill in the warming region of the Southern Ocean?” 3 year postdoctoral position and consumables: 283,290 EUR University of Bremen and AWI 2015: Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Junior Fellowship with the project: “Themisto gaudichaudii, a hyperiid amphipod on the fast lane to take over a central role from krill in the Southern Ocean” 5 months salary and accommodation: 20,000 EUR Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst and AWI 2007: Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO) Action 2 grant for a doctorate research project “Biodiversity and evolution of Antarctic lysianassoid amphipods” 4 year PhD position and consumables: 190,000 EUR Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Fellowships, stipends, travel grants (11) Total = ca. 31,400 EUR

2018: Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Travel Grant, 950 EUR 2017: NSF travel grant, University of California, Riverside, 1,000 EUR 2016: International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Travel Grant, 500 EUR 2016: Bonus Award (Prämie für Erfolge), University of Bremen, 3,000 EUR 2014: AnT-ERA mini-grant for the SCAR Open Science Conference, 1,000 EUR 2013: COMNAP Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs fellowship, 12,500 USD 2012: Antarctic Science International Bursary, 4,000 GBP 2012: Synthesis of Systematic Resources (SYNTHESYS) grant for a research stay at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France, 2,000 EUR 2012: King Leopold III fund for Nature Exploration and Conservation, 3,000 EUR 2008: Joint Experimental Molecular Unit Grant, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 3,000 EUR 2005: Mercator Mobility grant for a student exchange with the University of Laval, Québec, Canada, 2,000 EUR

Awards, nominations (6)

2018: Polar picture contest award, 27th International Polar Conference, Rostock, Germany Curriculum Vitae 2021 Charlotte Havermans 3 of 6

2017: Selected participant for the NSF workshop on Antarctic Ecosystem Research following Ice Shelf Collapse and Iceberg Calving Events, Florida State University 2014: Invited expert at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Workshop on macrofauna studies for exploration of deep-sea mineral resources from the Pacific Clarion- Clipperton Fracture Zone, East Sea Research Institute, South Korea 2014: Nominated early-career researcher for the SCAR Horizon Scan Retreat in Queenstown, New Zealand, for future Antarctic research planning 2012: Best oral communication award at the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) Benelux Symposium, Ghent, Belgium 2009: Early Career Award for an oral communication at the Xth SCAR International Biology Symposium, Sapporo, Japan

Research expeditions (9)

05/2021 – 06/2021: Group leader “FramJelly”, RV Polarstern PS126, Fram Strait (7 weeks) 07/2017 – 08/2017: RV Polarstern PS107, Fram Strait (4 weeks) 12/2016 – 02/2017: Group leader “Interpelagic”, RV Polarstern PS103, Weddell Sea (7 weeks) 07/2016 – 09/2016: RV Polarstern PS100, Fram Strait and Greenland Sea (7 weeks) 01/2016: MVO Bernardo Houssay, IADO-PNA, Southwest Atlantic Ocean (2 weeks) 12/2013 – 03/2014: RV Polarstern ANT-XXIX/9, Weddell Sea and Filchner area (11 weeks) 01/2012 – 03/2012: RV Polarstern ANT-XXVIII/3, Southern Ocean (10 weeks) 02/2011 – 04/2011: RV Polarstern ANT-XXVII/3, Antarctic Peninsula, Weddell Sea (11 weeks) 08/2009: RV Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen (2 weeks)

Professional activities

Courses: Hochschuldidaktik, 2021 Helmholtz Leadership Academy, 2020-2021 Metabarcoding Bioinformatics Course, Biome-ID, AWI Bremerhaven (2020) Echoview training course, Online (2020) Introduction to Ocean Data View, Alfred Wegener Institute (2019) Interview-Training (PROCEED), Alfred Wegener Institute (2019) Introduction to food web modelling - Ecopath with Ecosim, Centre for Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal (2018) Frauen in Führung – gut vorbereitet in die Zukunft als Führungskraft (Leadership skills), Universität Bremen (2018) Eukaryotic Metabarcoding, Freie Universität Berlin, DE (2017) Marine Evolution under Climate Change, Sven Lovén Center, Kristineberg, Sweden (2015) Molecular Analysis of Trophic Interactions, Innsbruck University, Austria (2015) Sea Survival Course, Falck Safety, Bremerhaven (2015) Biogeochemical oceanography (POLMAR), Alfred Wegener Institute (2014) Photophysiology of phytoplankton (POLMAR), Alfred Wegener Institute (2014) Basics of taxonomy: describing, illustrating and writing biodiversity, Sven Lovén Center, Kristineberg, Sweden (2010) Marine Benthic Fauna of Svalbard, University of Svalbard, Svalbard, Norway (2009) Teaching: Marine Molecular Biology MSc course at Uni Bremen (2021) Seminars for high school students (Arctic Frontiers Youth, January 2018) and Senior University (Liège, Belgium, March 2016) Zooplankton ecology: practical sessions at Uni Bremen (2016-17) Curriculum Vitae 2021 Charlotte Havermans 4 of 6

Indian-German winter school (2015): Lecturer on deep-sea biology and deep-sea mining, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India Supervision: PhD Student Ayla Murray, “Application of environmental DNA for the diversity assessment of gelatinous zooplankton”, 2021-2024, main supervisor. PhD Student Annkathrin Dischereit, “Trophic ecology of Arctic gelatinous zooplankton”, 2021-2024, main supervisor. PhD student Dmitrii Pantiukhin, “Niche modelling of Arctic gelatinous zooplankton”, 2020 – 2023, main supervisor PhD student Meike Anna Seefeldt “Lysianassoid diversity in the rapidly changing Southern Ocean”, PhD thesis, 2013–2017, Ruhr University Bochum, with Dr. C. Held PhD student Andrea Desiderato “Crustacean fouling communities”, PhD thesis, 2018- 2021, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil, and AWI, with Dr. J. Beermann. MSc Student Leili Tilvaldyeva, “Genetic connectivity of the widespread hydrozoan Aglantha digitale from sub-Arctic to central-Arctic regions”, April – September 2021, with St-Petersburg University. MSc Student Ayla Murray, “Phylogeography of two co-occurring and range-shifting amphipods”, December 2020-July 2021, main supervisor. MSc Student Annkathrin Dischereit, “Diet analyses of two co-occurring and range- shifting amphipods”, July 2020 – February 2021, University of Hamburg with Prof. M. Peck. MSc student Allison Hall-Mullen “Cosmopolitan amphipods and global ship traffic: tracing back past colonization events” MSc thesis, May 2018 – Jan 2019, University of Bremen with Dr. J. Beermann MSc student Simon Schöbinger, “Hyperiid feeding ecology in the Southern Ocean. Exploring the potential of molecular methods” MSc thesis, May – Oct 2017, University of Bremen with Dr. H. Auel MSc student Yasemin Bodur, “Cosmopolitan amphipod species in the age of global ship traffic” molecular laboratory internship, April – August 2017, University of Bremen with Dr. J. Beermann MSc student Franz Schröter, field-based internship, Dec 2016 – Feb 2017, University of Bremen MSc student Simon Schöbinger, field-based internship, Dec 2016 – Feb 2017 University of Bremen BSc student Neele Krieg “Genetic connectivity of Arctic under-ice amphipods” BSc thesis, May – September 2018, University of Bremen with Dr. H. Auel BSc student Neele Krieg “Population structure of two congeneric Arctic pelagic amphipods” PM4 Arbeit, March – April 2018, University of Bremen with Dr. H. Auel Reviewing: Scientific journals/books: Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Biogeosciences, Limnology and Oceanography, Marine Biology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, PloS ONE, Journal of Biogeography, Hydrobiologia, Deep-Sea Research I, Deep-Sea Research II, Marine Biodiversity, ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, PeerJ, Zootaxa, the Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean and the YOUMARES proceedings (Springer Verlag) Funding agencies: Italian and Polish National Research Councils Member: Planning member of the SCAR research programme Ant-ICON, 2019-present Co-founder of Women in Polar Science”, newsletter- and website editor Biosciences Division council member, AWI, 2020-2025 Postdoc Council, Deputy Biosciences, AWI, 2018 Curriculum Vitae 2021 Charlotte Havermans 5 of 6

Panel member of Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS-DE, 2016, 2018) Active member of APECS-Belgium (2011-14) Member of the Network of Biological Systematics Austria (NOBIS, 2019)

Conferences: 44 oral communications and 34 posters presented in 19 different countries Co-convener of a Symposium at the SCAR Open Science Conference 2016: “Connecting the biological and the physical: environmental drivers of biodiversity in Antarctica”

Outreach activities

Website www.charlottehavermans.com, photographic documentation of expeditions Youtube Videos of sampling campaigns and scientific findings WiPS co-founder of “Women in Polar Science”, newsletter- and website editor @events Polarstern Open Ship Day, 2017 XXXVI Antarctic Treaty Consultative meeting: 2013 School visits Lecture, Science for Schools, Arctic Frontiers Youth, Tromsø, 2018 Set-up of a project “AntARTica”: creative polar science education in secondary schools – regular school visits with lectures during art classes, Belgium, 2012 – 2013 Seminars Senior University, University of Liège, Belgium, 2016. Blogs, articles Radio (4) and TV interviews (9), movies (Sommer in der Antarktis, RBB), online article (1) on the research of my team during Polarstern expedition PS103 (2017) Blogs, radio interview and reports on expeditions (2011, 2012, 2016) Wide press coverage (> 45 articles), television and radio interview of scientific results in German/Belgian and international newspapers, printed and online press (2013, 2018)

10 most important publications

• Havermans C, Auel H, Hagen W, Held C, Ensor NS, Tarling GA (2019). Predatory zooplankton on the move: Themisto amphipods in high-latitude marine pelagic food webs. In: C Sheppard (Ed), Advances in Marine Biology Vol. 82, Elsevier, 42 p. • Havermans C, Hagen W, Zeidler W, Held C, Auel H (2019) A survival pack for escaping predation in the open ocean: amphipod-pteropod associations in the Southern Ocean. Marine Biodiversity 49(3): 1361-1370. • Havermans C, Smetacek V (2018) Bottom-up and top-down triggers of diversification: A new look at the evolutionary ecology of scavenging amphipods in the deep sea. Progress in Oceanography 164: 37-51. • Havermans C, Seefeldt MA, Held C (2018) A biodiversity survey of scavenging amphipods in a proposed marine protected area: the Filchner area in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology 41(7): 1371-1390. • Chenuil A, Saucède T, Hemery L, Eléaume M, Féral JP, Améziane N, Lecointre G, Havermans C (2018) Understanding processes at the origin of species flocks with a focus on the marine Antarctic fauna. Biological Reviews 93(1): 481-504. • Havermans C (2016) Have we so far only seen the tip of the iceberg? Exploring species diversity and distribution of the giant amphipod Eurythenes. Biodiversity 17(1-2): 12-25. • Kennicutt II M, Chown SL, Cassano J, Liggett D, Massom R, Peck L, Rintoul S, Storey J, Vaughan D, Wilson T, Allison I, Ayton J, Badhe R, Baeseman J, Barrett P, Bell R, Bertler N, Bo S, Brandt A, Bromwich D, Cary C, Clark M, Convey P, ..., Havermans C, et al. (2014) Six priorities for Antarctic science (and supplementary information) Nature 512: 23-25. Curriculum Vitae 2021 Charlotte Havermans 6 of 6

• Havermans C, Sonet G, d’Udekem d’Acoz C, Nagy ZT, Martin P, Brix S, Riehl T, Agrawal S, Held C (2013) Genetic and morphological divergences in the cosmopolitan deep-sea amphipod Eurythenes gryllus reveal a diverse abyss and a bipolar species. PloS ONE 8(9): e74218. • Havermans C, Nagy ZT, Sonet G, De Broyer C, Martin P (2011) DNA barcoding reveals new insights into the diversity of Antarctic species of Orchomene sensu lato (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea). Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 58: 230-241. • Havermans C, Nagy ZT, Sonet G, De Broyer C, Martin P (2010) Incongruence between molecular phylogeny and morphological classification in amphipod crustaceans: A case study of Antarctic lysianassoids. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 202-209.