Dr. Anna Feller Breaks the Barriers – 2025 Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize Winner

We’re thrilled to congratulate former Hopkins Lab member Dr. Anna Feller on receiving the 2025 Marie Heim-Vögtlin Prize from the Swiss National Science Foundation – an award that recognizes exceptional women researchers whose careers have been elevated by SNSF support.

Anna’s award-winning research focuses on understanding how closely related plant species maintain reproductive barriers which is a key question in the study of speciation and biodiversity. While at the Hopkins Lab, she explored these mechanisms in Phlox wildflowers, combining lab-based experiments with genetic analyses of natural populations.

Now a researcher at ETH Zurich, Anna continues to investigate how species boundaries evolve across diverse environments, including alpine plant communities.

Please read more about her achievements here.