Hello ! G’ day ! কী খবর! Guten tag!

Welcome to my website. My name is Kawsar Khan. I am a Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow working at the Freie Universität Berlin. I am broadly interested in how ecological factors impact animal traits, intra- and interspecies interactions, and how these interactions contribute to species extinction risks. I use insect systems (damselflies, beetles, spiders, and butterflies) to address my research questions.

My current research goals are to determine how climate change impacts insects’ immunity, pathogens’ virulence, and host pathogen interactions. I want to understand how the changing climate will disseminate diseases across landscapes and whether/how it contributes to the global decline of insect population.

I am also interested in animal colouration, sexual selection and their impacts on population fitness. I studied evolutionary significance of  ontogenetic colour change during my PhD. At present, I am studying how climate change will impact insect colouration and its consequence  local adaptation.