Daniel Lukic

Daniel Lukic

PhD student, Project Staff

Hellbrunnerstraße 34, 5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43(0)662 8044 5602

E-Mail:

Room: C-2.013

Research interest

  • DNA-Taxonomy of phytophagous scarabs (Sericini)
  • Distance-based and tree-based species delimitation methods
  • Genomics and Museomics (genomic analysis of historic DNA (dry specimens from museum collections))
  • Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Trichodes (Cleridae)
  • Reconstruction of the biogeographic history of Trichodes
  • Studies on the co-evolution of a mimicry-system between Trichodes and Mylabris (Meloidae) species (utilizing 3D-geometric morphometrics (Photogrammetry))

Curriculum vitae                                                                                                                                 

Education and training

  • 02/2023: University of Salzburg, Austria; Doctoral studies (PhD) in natural sciences at the Department of Environment & Biodiversity
  • 06/2019 – 06/2020: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany, Section Coleoptera, master thesis: “DNA-based species delimitation in Laotian chafers (Sericini) from Phou Pan Mountain”
  • 10/2017 – 09/2020: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Master of Science in Biology. Degree: 1.2
  • 10/2013 – 07/2017: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, Bachelor of Science in Biology

Professional experience

  • 10/2019 – 01/2023: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany, museum educator for the “Leibniz-Taxonomie-Werkstatt” (project: “UN-Dekade Biologische Vielfalt 2020”)
  • 09/2020 – 10/2022: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, scientific employee Section Coleoptera. Diverse activities in the Coleoptera collection
  • 03/2022 – 06/2022: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, scientific employee in the “FINKA”-project (Förderung von Insekten im Ackerbau, 2020-2025). Entomological fieldwork on arable land
  • 09/2019 – 08/2020: Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, student assistant Section Coleoptera. Diverse activities in the Coleoptera collection
  • 04/2018 – 09/2018; 04/2017 – 09/2017: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, student assistant in the course “botanical determination exercises”
  • 04/2017: Ruhr-University Bochum, student assistant in the course “ecology, evolution and biodiversity of invertebrates”
  • 08/2012 – 07/2013: Einsatzstelle Grün und Gruga Park/Schule Natur der Stadt Essen, Germany, work experience as part of a “voluntary ecological year”. Assistance in guided tours (environmental education) for school classes

Language skills

  • German
  • English
  • Serbo-Croatian

Computer skills

  • Windows platforms – Ms Office suite
  • DNA-sequence analysis – Geneious
  • Calculation of phylogenetic trees with maximum likelihood – IQ-TREE web server
  • DNA-based species delimitation tools:
  • Tree-based methods – bPTP, mPTP
  • Distance-based methods – TCS, ABGD, Distance-based clustering

Affiliations

  • since 2023: Society for Biological Systematics (GfBS)

Publications

2023

Ahrens D, Liu W, Lukic D, Bai M (2023) A taxonomic review of Microserica Brenske, 1894 from continental Asia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini). In: Zootaxa.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5241.1.1

Ahrens D, Lukic D, Pham P, Li W, Liu W (2023) Tetraserica Ahrens, 2004 of continental Southeast Asia: new records, new species, and an updated key to species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae: Sericini). Zootaxa 5374, 451–486.  https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5374.4.1

2022

Ahrens D, Lukic D (2022) Neoserica (s. str.) phuphami – a further new Neoserica species from Vietnam with highly modified pronotum (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Sericini). In: Zootaxa.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.3.8

2021

Lukic D, Eberle J, Thormann J, Holzschuh C, Ahrens D (2021) Excluding spatial sampling bias does not eliminate oversplitting in DNA‐based species delimitation analyses. In: Ecology and Evolution.  DOI: 10.1002/ece3.7836