My name is Sietze Norder, I am a biogeographer and island researcher.

My research focuses on the question how human societies and environmental factors shape biodiversity patterns. I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University where I study how topography, climate, and ecology have shaped human diversity and migration.

In February 2020 I defended my PhD dissertation ‘Island Biogeography in the Anthropocene and Quaternary’ at the University of Lisbon.