Robert Kraus

Robert H.S. Kraus graduated in 2007 from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University biology programme in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) on the molecular ecology and hybridisation of Daphnia water fleas. He continued his studies at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, with a PhD project on population genomics of mallards, obtaining his doctorate in 2011. After working as postdoc at the interface between applied conservation genetics and genetic research methods development at the Senckenberg Institute in Gelnhausen/Frankfurt, Germany, he moved to the University of Konstanz in southern Germany in 2014, where he took on an assistant professorship in the department of biology. He concurrently leads the Disease Ecology and Evolutionary Genetics Groups at the nearby Max Planck Institute for Ornithology as principal investigator. Robert Kraus has participated dedicatedly in peer-review for many years, with about 50 peer-reviews for 26 scientific journals. He is also academic member of the editorial board of BMC Genetics and Axios Review.