Marleen de Troch

Prof. Dr. Marleen De Troch (°Ninove, 16 July 1973) is a marine ecologist at Ghent University (Marine Biology Research Group). She graduated as Master in Biology (option Zoology) from the Ghent University in 1995 with a masterthesis on ‘Community structure and feeding ecology of fishes from a tropical bay (Gazi Bay, Kenya)’.Her PhD research (1995-2001, PhD fellow of the FWO–Flanders) focussed on ‘Ecology of harpacticoid copepods: structural biodiversity in tropical seagrass beds’ in close cooperation with the Kenya Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Kenya), El Colegio del frontera Sur (Mexico) and the Davao Oriental State College for Science and Technology (The Philippines).As Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (2001-2011) and UGent Special research Fund (2011-2015) she studied the structural aspects of marine biodiversity and the trophic interactions at the basis of marine food webs between primary producers and consumers.