Research: JGU > Faculty of Biology > iomE > Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology > Prof. Hanna Kokko

Research Focus

  • Theoretical methods in evolutionary ecology
  • Eco-evolutionary feedbacks, species coexistence, polymorphisms
  • Life history evolution (including sexual and asexual reproduction, ageing)
  • Dispersal, migration, social evolution

Grants ongoing

2024-2028 | 1 of 13 Group leaders in the DFG Research Training Group (RTG 2526) GenEvo, JGU Mainz

2023-2026 | Henriette Herz Scouting status, host for 3 Humboldt Research Fellowship recipients

2023-2027 | Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

Memberships

2025 | German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

2023 | Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences

2020 | International Honorary Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2014 | Invited Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

2007 | Invited Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters

Previous grants

Partner Universities

For a complete list of publications, see: ‪Google Scholar‬

Books

Kokko, H. 2007: Modelling for Field Biologists And Other Interesting People, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Bargum, K. & Kokko, H. 2008. Kutistuva turska ja muita evoluution ihmeitä. WSOY (in Finnish). — Swedish translation: Bargum, K. & Kokko, H. 2008. Torsken som krympte och andra evolutionära mirakel. Söderström. (Title translates as: The shrinking cod and other evolutionary miracles.)

Articles in refereed scientific journals

Invited talks

Plenaries at major international conferences

2025 | Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society (Tutzing, Germany)

M.Sc. Degree programs

1. Evolutionary Theory
Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Hanna Kokko, Dr. Thomas Keaney

2. Evolutionary Modelling
Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Hanna Kokko, Dr. Thomas Keaney

B.Sc. Degree programs

1. Theoretische Evolutionsbiologie und Ökologie
Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Hanna Kokko, Dr. Margaux Bieuville, Dr. Claudia Crowther, Dr. Tomos Potter

2. VL Ökologie, Biodiversität und Evolution
Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Foitzik; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hanna Kokko; Dr. Florian Menzel; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Shuqing Xu