I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Zoology at Charles University, Prague, studying how diet and the gut microbiome shape the ecology and diversification of wild animals. I combine fieldwork with large-scale metabarcoding (16S and 18S rRNA) and statistical modelling to link host ecology, genetics and microbial communities.

My current work follows two systems: the adaptive radiation of murine rodents in Papua New Guinea, where I ask how dietary niche partitioning and microbial shifts accompany diversification; and sympatric Darevskia lizards, where I compare the microbiota of a parthenogenetic species with its sexual ancestor.

During my MSc and PhD at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, I studied adaptation to high altitude in Anatolian blind mole rats, integrating population genetics, innate immunity, diet and the gut microbiome.