Jokela, Jukka

Biography

Jukka Jokela has been a Full Professor of Aquatic Ecology at ETH-Zürich since June 2005. Prof. Jokela was born in Helsinki, Finland on 24th of June 1963. He studied Hydrobiology, Limnology, Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Statistics at the University of Jyväskylä between 1982 and 1989. Between 1990 and 1993 he completed his PhD at the Laboratory of Ecological Zoology of University of Turku, Finland. After PhD he received a post-doctoral fellowship from Academy of Finland to work with Prof. Curt Lively at Indiana University for two years. Collaboration with Prof. Lively has continued actively ever since. At May 1996 he moved ETH-Zürich to work as a Senior Assistant with Prof. Paul Schmid-Hempel, and in year 2000 was accepted as a Privat Dozent of the Department of Environmental Sciences at ETH-Zürich. In year 2000 he also received a Senior Research Fellowship from the Academy of Finland, which supported his research group at the University of Turku (2000-2001) and University of Oulu (2002-2005).

Research Interest

His research focuses on short term evolutionary responses to ecological and environmental change, host-parasite coevolution, local adaptation and invertebrate immunoecology. His long term interest has been empirical testing of theories proposed to explain maintenance of sexual reproduction in mixed populations of clonal and sexual females. General research theme is to understand the ecological and evolutionary factors promoting local adaptation and race formation in natural populations of aquatic organisms.