PhD Students

Dominique MEDIODIA

杜明克

Dom is a PhD Student at National Taiwan Normal University (TIGP program). His current work is on fish taxonomy and paleontology through otoliths, particularly in the Philippines.

He will be working to understand the relationship between phylogeny, morphology and biodiversity in fish otoliths over millions of years using 3D geometric morphometrics and machine learning approaches.

Diana S. OSIPOVA

白安娜

Diana obtained her Master's at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine. Being interested in evolutionary processes, she has been working with different molluscan taxa. Currently her interests focus on the hinge evolution and abnormalities in Bivalvia.

She is exploring the molluscan fauna of Szekou Formation in Taiwan. Her project is supported by the Academia Sinica.

Zi-Qi CHEW 

周子淇

Ziqi is a PhD student at the University of California, San Diego. She is an archaeologist who is interested in understanding how human fisheries interacted with ecological and environmental changes in the past. 

She is in our lab through the TIGP-X program. She currently studies fish otoliths that are collected from marine sediment cores in the Taiwan Strait and archaeological fish assemblages from northern Taiwan.  

MSc Student

Yufong Godfrey CHEN

陳御風

Godfrey is a master's student at the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, with interests in paleobiology, ichthyology, and ecology.  

He is currently focusing on Pliocene elasmobranch fossils from northern Taiwan and trying to interpret their associated paleoecology; he will use interdisciplinary approaches to explore how to reconstruct past marine ecosystems through shark fossils. 

Undergrad Student

Ching-Feng LIN

林敬峰

Ching-Feng is a student at the Taipei National University of the Arts. 

He is very enthusiastic about fish, marine life, and mammals. He has been collecting fish specimens from the trawl fishery and mammals from roadkill for years and even wrote a popular science book about it. 

He is now helping us identify fishes from Dongsha Island.

Zi-Chen LIN

林子宸

Zi-Chen is a high school student at the Taipei First Girls High School. 

She has a huge interest in shells. She is now working on exploring the biodiversity of micro-mollusks from the Late Pleistocene of Taiwan with the help of Diana, our PhD student.