Dr. Elizabeta Briski has founded a research group at GEOMAR with a Sofia Kovalevskaya Award of the Humboldt Foundation
5th August 2014/Kiel. The Croatian/Canadian biologist Dr. Elizabeta Briski studies the question whether species from certain regions have inherent advantages over other species in colonizing new ecosystems. For her research she has been awarded with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The award is endowed with 1.6 million euro. With the funding Dr. Briski will set up a junior research group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
