Staff and Graduate Students

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor
Darren Yeo Chong Jinn

Head of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM)
Research Affiliate, Tropical Marine Science Institute (TMSI)
Email: dbsyeod@nus.edu.sg, nhmyeod@nus.edu.sg
Research Profiles: ResearchGate, Google Scholar

Research interests:
Freshwater ecology and biodiversity,
Aquatic invasions
Freshwater decapod crustaceans

Research Staff

Research Associate
Lai Kean Sim

Email: dbslks@nus.edu.sg

Research interests:
Macroinvertebrate Ecology
Aquatic ecology
Acoustic ecology
Stable Isotope ecology

Research Assistant
Goh Yi Le

Email: dbsgyl@nus.edu.sg

Research interests:
Aquatic ecology
Freshwater plankton

 

Research Assistant
Bryna Liang

Email: bliang@nus.edu.sg

Research interests:
Macroinvertebrate ecology
Trophic ecology
Stream ecology

Research Assistant
Hou Yunhan

Email:

Research interests:
Macroinvertebrate ecology
Insect taxonomy and systematics
Invasion biology

Research Associate
Rebecca Loh

Email: rebeccaloh@nus.edu.sg

Research interests:
Environmental DNA
Aquatic ecosystems
DNA metabarcoding / barcoding

 

Lab Technologist
Elvina Choo

Email: elvina@nus.edu.sg

Graduate Students

 

PhD Student
Teo Xue Shen

Email: xueshen@u.nus.edu

Research interests:
Fish biology
Teal carbon
Microplastics

PhD Student
Tan Zhi Wan

Email: tzw@u.nus.edu
Research Profile: ResearchGate

Research interests:
Taxonomy and systematics of freshwater decapods and fish

PhD Student
Elysia Toh Xin Pei
Email: elysia.toh@u.nus.edu
Research Profile: ResearchGate, Google ScholarResearch interests:
Freshwater decapod crustaceans
Peat swamp biodiversity and ecology
Invasion biology
Behavioral biology
PhD Student
Wu Min Li
Email: minliwu@u.nus.eduResearch interests:
Microplastics
Freshwater macrophytes
Ecology
MSc Student

Soh Bryan

Email: sohbryan@nus.edu.sg

Research interests:
Freshwater decapods
Trophic ecology
Population genomics

 

MSc Student (from Jan 2025)

Cho Jia Yi, Tricia

Email: triciacho@nus.edu.sg

Research interests:
Aquatic ecology
Invasion biology

 

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