Jordy van der Beek
PhD candidate / self funded
- Name
- Mr. J.G. van der Beek MSc
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- j.g.van.der.beek@cml.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-7237-275X
Jordy is a PhD researcher at the Department of Environmental Biology of CML, studying the impact of climate change on mosquitoes and vector-borne disease risk.
Professional experience
Jordy graduated as a MSc in Biology, with a specialization in Biodiversity and Sustainability, in 2022. His first MSc research project focused at small scale distribution patterns of mosquitoes in a Dutch wetland to test the impact of fragmented habitats on mosquito occurrences. A second research project investigated sampling bias in big datasets, using a multi-year database of opportunistic occurrence records of hoverflies, sampled by both experts and citizen scientists. This research focused on the possible implications that biased data can have while analysing spatial and temporal trends.
During and after his study, Jordy worked as freelance fieldwork assistant for many different research projects. After his graduation, he started at Naturalis Biodiversity Center coordinating the Dutch fieldwork for an EU-funded project to establish a European-wide pollinator monitoring network, as well as working on mosquito ecology and taxonomy related research projects. The latter activities included a mosquito biodiversity inventory that was executed on all of the Dutch Caribbean Islands (in 2018 and 2022) in collaboration with the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM).
Jordy started as a PhD researcher at the Department of Environmental Biology of CML in February 2023.
Research topic
Jordy is a PhD researcher in the Frontrunner project: “Climate change and vector-borne virus outbreaks” from the Pandemic and Disaster Preparedness Center. The project will investigate if climate-related habitat changes relate to ideal mosquito habitat and increase vector-borne disease risk. The climate-related habitat changes that are being investigated within this project include groundwater salinization, salt intrusion in surface water and the delta, land-use modifications and surface-water temperatures.
PhD candidate / self funded
- Science
- Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen Leiden
- CML/Environmental Biology
- Krol L., Remmerswaal L., Groen M., Beek J.G. van der, Sikkema R.S., Dellar M.E., Bodegom P.M. van, Geerling G.W. & Schrama M.J.J. (2024), Landscape level associations between birds, mosquitoes and microclimates: possible consequences for disease transmission?, Parasites & Vectors 17: 156.
- Wouters R.M., Beukema W., Schrama M.J.J., Biesmeijer J.C., Braks M.A.H., Helleman P.J.J., Schaffner F. Slobbe J. van Stroo A. & Beek J.G. van der (2024), Local environmental factors drive distributions of ecologically-contrasting mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae), Scientific Reports 14: 19315.
- Beek J.G. van der, Schrama M.J.J., Ciliberti P., Helleman P.J.J., Wouters R.M., Schaffner F. & Braks M.A.H. (2024), First record of a phlebotomine sand fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao, DEINSEA 22: 23-30.
- Krol L., Blom R., Dellar M., Beek J.G. van der Stroo A.C.J., Bodegom P.M. van, Geerling G.W., Koenraadt C.J.M. & Schrama M.J.J. (2023), Interactive effects of climate, land use and soil type on Culex pipiens/torrentium abundance, One Health 17: 100589.
- Beek J.G. van der & Schrama M. (2023), Een eerste overzicht van de steekmuggen van Rotterdam, Straatgras 35(2): 52-58.
- Beek J.G. van der, Dijkstra K.-D.B., Hoorn B.B. van der, Boerlijst S.P., Busscher L., Kok M.L., Braks M.A.H., Schaffner F., Davelaar G.J., Henry M., Hulshof K., Leslie T. & Schrama M.J.J. (2020), Taxonomy, ecology and distribution of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Dutch Leeward Islands, with a key to the adults and fourth instar larvae, Contributions to Zoology 89(4): 373-392.
- Sikkema R.S., Schrama M., Berg T. van den, Morren J., Munger E., Krol L., Beek J.G. van der, Blom R., Chestakova I., Linden A. van der, Boter M., Mastrigt T. van, Molenkamp R., Koenraadt C.J., Brand J. van der, Munnink B.B.O., Koopmans M.P. & Jeugd. H. van der (2020), Detection of West Nile virus in a common whitethroat (Curruca communis) and Culex mosquitoes in the Netherlands, 2020, Eurosurveillance 25(40): 2-7.
- Boerlijst S.P., Trimbos K.B., Beek J.G. van der, Dijkstra K.D.B., Hoorn B.B. van der & Schrama M.J.J. (2019), Field evaluation of DNA based biodiversity monitoring of caribbean mosquitoes, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 240.
- Hubert J., Campbell J.A., Beek J.G. van der, Haan M.F. den, Verhave R., Verkade L.S. & Slabbekoorn H.W. (2018), Effects of broadband sound exposure on the interaction between foraging crab and shrimp - A field study, Environmental Pollution 243: 1923-1929.