People

Our Lab

Marc Rius

Senior Tenured Researcher & Director

Affiliations: CEAB-CSIC, UJ
Office: CEAB – first floor
Telephone: +34 972 336101, Email: mrius(at)ceab(dot)csic(dot)es

CV · ResearchGate · Google Scholar Citations · Institutional website

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Elena Baños

PhD student, 2023-2026

Paleoecological reconstruction and identification of non native species using metabarcoding and metagenomics

Project links: CEAB-CSIC
Supervisory team: Marc Rius, Sandra Nogué, Luke Holman
Email: elena.bl(at)ceab(dot)csic(dot)es
Orcid webpage

Liam Junkin

PhD student, 2025-2028

Population genomics of two widely introduced ascidians

Project links: UB, CEAB-CSIC
Supervisory team: Carlos Carreras, Marc Rius, Carles Galià-Camps
Email: ljunkin(at)ub(dot)edu

Adrià Antich

Postdoc, 2025-2028

Biological invasions accross time and space: delimiting the invasion stages at different aquatic ecosystems
Advisors: Marc Ventura, Marc Rius
Email: a.antich(at)ceab(dot)csic(dot)es
Personal webpage

In Durham, BES meeting, July 2017

In Southampton, docks of NOCS, November 2019

Former members

Jesús Zarcero

PhD student, 2022-2026

Monitoring of urbanised habitats using environmental DNA metabarcoding

Project links: CEAB-CSIC
Supervisory team: Xavier Turon, Owen Wagensteen, Marc Rius
Email: jzarcero(at)ceab(dot)csic(dot)es
Research Gate webpage

Luke Holman

PhD student, 2017-2021

Environmental DNA and the study of marine biological invasions
Project links: OES-UoS, BU, NOC
Main supervisor: Marc Rius
Email: L.E.Holman(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
Webpage PhD thesis EThOS thesis link

Jamie Hudson

PhD student 2016-2020

The role of climate change, species invasions and hybridisation in the redistribution of marine biodiversity
Project links: OES-UoS, UJ, RU
Main supervisor: Marc Rius
Email: J.Hudson(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
PhD thesis EThOS thesis link

Abigail Mabey

PhD student, 2017-2021

Investigating the role of traits in species invasiveness in marine and terrestrial ecosystems Project links: Geog-KCL, OES-UoS, MBA

University supervisor: Marc Rius
Email: A.L.Mabey(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
University webpage

Karolina Zarzyczny

PhD student, 2020-2025

The ecological and evolutionary consequences of tropicalisation Project links: OES-UoS, NHM
Supervisory team: Phil Fenberg, Marc Rius, Suzanne Williams
Email: K.M.Zarzyczny(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
Research Gate webpage

Robyn Samuel

PhD student, 2018-2025

Autonomous monitoring of marine organisms using novel technologies Project links: NOC, OES-UoS
University supervisor: Phil Fenberg
Email: R.M.Samuel(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
University webpage

Ella McKnight

PhD student, 2017-2021

The influence of environmental variability on the ecological performance of native and non-native marine organisms
Project links: MBA, MUN, OES-UoS
Main supervisor: Marc Rius
Email: Ella.Mcknight(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
University webpage

Kathryn Pack

PhD student, 2017-2021

Physiologically based shifts in species distributions under global climate change Project links: MBA, OES-UoS
University supervisor: Marc Rius
Email: kep2g11(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
PhD thesis EThoS thesis link

Edward Wort

PhD student, 2014-2018

The role of habitat gaps and oceanography on the biogeography of rocky intertidal species over historic time scales
Project links: OES-UoS, NHM
Main supervisor: Phil Fenberg
Email: ew6g09(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
Webpage EThOS thesis link

Carles Galià-Camps

Postdoc, 2024

Project links: Margech
Email: carles.galia(at)mncn(dot)csic(dot)es
Webpage

Jamie Hudson

Postdoc, 2021-2022

Project links: H2020
Email: J.Hudson(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
Webpage

Alfonso Pita

Postdoc, 2016-2018

Project links: OES-UoS, MBA
Email: alpita(at)uvigo(dot)es
Webpage

Steve Bourne

PhD student, 2014-2018

The genomics of adaptation and its consequences for marine biological invasions
Project links: OES-UoS, BS-UoS
Main supervisor: Marc Rius
Email: S.Bourne(at)soton(dot)ac(dot)uk
PhD thesis EThOS thesis link

MSc students

2025/2026
Andrea Flores
Martina Mata

2019/2020
Ed Good
Mireia Silvestre

2018/2019
Alessia Dinoi

2014/2015
Ella McKnight (and afterwards PhD student)
Jacob Bishop

2013/2014
Panagiotis Malouchos

MSci students

2021/2022
Jessica Brice

2020/2021
Elliot Lack

2018/2019
Yi Chng

2017/2018
Selina Carlhoff (and afterwards PhD student)

2015/2016
Jessica Adams
Caitriona Hanly
Joshua Murray

2014/2015
Jamie Hudson (and afterwards PhD student)
Joe Hudson

Visiting researchers

2019/2020
Joëlle van der Sprong (and afterwards PhD student)

2014/2015
Stefano Scocca
Axelle Amstutz (and afterwards PhD student)

BSc students

2025
Clara Ras Segura

2018/2019
Lilla Mocsonoky

2015/2016
Michael Ratnarajah
Oliver Bray

2014/2015
Alex Sullivan