Zoomorphology - Welcome our new Editor-in-Chief, Alexandra Kerbl

Alexandra Kerbl is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the group of Prof. Gáspár Jékely at the Living Systems Institute of the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). After finishing her diploma study in zoology at the University of Vienna (Austria), she obtained her PhD in Marine Biology at the MarineApologies for any misunderstanding, a couple of changes happened here at Springer Nature as well as in the Journal’s leadership Biological Section, Department of Biology at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2016 under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Katrine Worsaae and Prof. Andreas Hejnol. Then and during a subsequent Postdoc in the lab of Katrine Worsaae she focused mainly on nervous system architecture and development in microscopic marine annelids, exploiting different microscopic techniques such as immunolabelling and confocal laser scanning microscopy and (transmission and scanning) electron microscopy. After serving at the newly established annelid collection at the Zoological Museum Hamburg as curator from end of 2019 to mid-2021, she is now delving deeper into nervous systems of small annelids and other larvae in Exeter, using novel approaches like ssSEM (serial section scanning electron microscopy) to explore neural circuits at ultrastructural level.     

Please read the joint editorial about the chief editor change here (this opens in a new tab).