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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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Blumer, M.J.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Ciecierska-Holmes, J.; Redl, S.; Pechriggl, E.J.; Mollen, F.H.; Dean, M.N. (2024). Intermediate filaments spatially organize intracellular nanostructures to produce the bright structural blue of ribbontail stingrays across ontogeny. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. 12: 1393237. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1393237, more
Reinecke, T.; Mollen, F.H.; Gijsen, B.; D'Haeze, B.; Hoedemakers, K. (2024). Batomorphs (Elasmobranchii: Rhinopristiformes, Rajiformes, Torpediniformes, Myliobatiformes) of the middle to late Ypresian, early Eocene, in the Anglo-Belgian Basin (south-western North Sea Basin) – a review and description of new taxa. Palaeontos 35: 1-172, more
Surapaneni, V.A.; Blumer, M.J.; Tadayon, K.; McIvor, A.J.; Redl, S.; Honis, H.-R.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Dean, M.N. (2024). Ribbontail stingray skin employs a core–shell photonic glass ultrastructure to make blue structural color. Advanced Optical Materials 12(12): 2301909. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom.202301909, more
Devloo-Delva, F.; Burridge, C.P.; Kyne, P.M.; Brunnschweiler, J.M.; Chapman, D.D.; Charvet, P.; Chen, X.; Cliff, G.; Daly, R.; Drymon, J.M.; Espinoza, M.; Fernando, D.; Garcia Barcia, L.; Glaus, K.; González‐Garza, B.I.; Grant, M.I.; Gunasekera, R.M.; Hernández, S.I.; Hyodo, S.; Jabado, R.W.; Jaquemet, S.; Johnson, G.; Ketchum, J.T.; Magalon, H.; Marthick, J.R.; Mollen, F.H.; Mona, S.; Naylor, G.J.P.; Nevill, J.E.G.; Phillips, N.M.; Pillans, R.D.; Postaire, B.D.; Smoothey, A.F.; Tachihara, K.; Tillet, B.J.; Valerio‐Vargas, J.A.; Feutry, P. (2023). From rivers to ocean basins: the role of ocean barriers and philopatry in the genetic structuring of a cosmopolitan coastal predator. Ecol. Evol. 13(2): e9837. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9837, more
Mollen, F.H.; Iglésias, S.P. (2023). An inventory of Bramble sharks Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Elasmobranchii, Echinorhinidae) in natural history collections worldwide for conservation status assessment. Zoosystema 45(22): 653-747. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a22, more
Surapaneni, V.A.; Schindler, M.; de Faria, L.; Ziege, R.; Bidan, C.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2023). Groovy and gnarly: Surface wrinkles as a multi-functional motif for terrestrial and marine environments. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(S1): S303-S304, more
White, W.T.; Mollen, F.H.; O’Neill, H.L.; Yang, L.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2023). Species in disguise: A new species of Hornshark from Northern Australia (Heterodontiformes: Heterodontidae). Diversity 15(7): 849. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15070849, more
Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2022). Exploring diet shifts and ecology in modern sharks using calcium isotopes and trace metal records of their teeth. J. Fish Biol. Early view. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15211, more
Barone, M.; Mollen, F.H.; Giles, J.L.; Marshall, L.J.; Villate-Moreno, M.; Mazzoldi, C.; Pérez-Costas, E.; Heine, J.; Guisande, C. (2022). Performance of iSharkFin in the identification of wet dorsal fins from priority shark species. Ecological Informatics 68: 101514. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101514, more
Goolaerts, S.; Christiaens, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Mottequin, B.; Steurbaut, E. (2022). Applying micro-CT imaging in the study of historically and newly collected specimens of Belosaepia (Sepiida, Coleoidea, Cephalopoda) from the Early Eocene (Ypresian) of Belgium. Riv. ital. paleontol. stratigr. (Testo stamp.) 128(3): 585-606. https://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/16617, more
Surapaneni, V.A.; Schindler, M.; Ziege, R.; de Faria, L.C.; Wölfer, J.; Bidan, C.M.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M.N. (2022). Groovy and gnarly: Surface wrinkles as a multifunctional motif for terrestrial and marine environments. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(3): 749-761. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac079, more
Collareta, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Merella, M.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2021). Remarkable multicuspid teeth in a new elusive skate (Chondrichthyes, Rajiformes) from the Mediterranean Pliocene. Paläontol. Z. 95(1): 117-128. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12542-020-00542-7, more
Collareta, A.; Merella, M.; Mollen, F.H.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2020). The extinct catshark Pachyscyllium distans (Probst, 1879) (Elasmobranchii: Carcharhiniformes) in the Pliocene of the Mediterranean Sea. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 295(2): 129-139. https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2020/0877, more
Goolaerts, S.; De Ceuster, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Gijsen, B.; Bosselaers, M.; Lambert, O.; Uchman, A.; Van Herck, M.; Adriaens, R.; Houthuys, R.; Louwye, S.; Bruneel, Y.; Elsen, J.; Hoedemakers, K. (2020). The upper Miocene Deurne Member of the Diest Formation revisited: unexpected results from the study of a large temporary outcrop near Antwerp International Airport, Belgium. Geol. Belg. 23(3-4): 219-252. https://dx.doi.org/10.20341/gb.2020.011, more
Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2020). L’histoire de la description du squale bouclé Echinorhinus brucus (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Echinorhinidae) et la redécouverte des illustrations du type perdu. Zoosystema 42(14): 173-193. https://hdl.handle.net/10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a13, more
Mollen, F.H. (2019). Making Louis Agassiz’s wish come true: combining forces and a new protocol for collecting comparative skeletal material of sharks, skates and rays, as a comment and an addition to ‘The need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species’ by Guinot et al. (2018). Zootaxa 4571(2): 295-300. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4571.2.13, more
Mollen, F.H. (2018). Checklist anxiety: the case for sharks, skates and rays. J. Fish Biol. 93(1): 163-164. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13733, more
Mollen, F.H.; Hovestadt, D.C. (2018). A new partial skeleton of a palaeospinacid shark (Neoselachii, Synechodontiformes) from the Albian of northern France, with a review of the taxonomic history of Early Cretaceous species of Synechodus Woodward, 1888. Geodiversitas 40(25): 557-574. https://dx.doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2018v40a25, more
Mollen, F.H.; van Bakel, B.W.M.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2016). A partial braincase and other skeletal remains of Oligocene angel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Squatiniformes) from northwest Belgium, with comments on squatinoid taxonomy. Contributions to Zoology 85(2): 147-171, more
Mollen, F.H.; Wintner, S.P.; Iglésias, S.P.; Van Sommeran, S.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2012). Comparative morphology of rostral cartilages in extant mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes, Lamniformes, Lamnidae) using CT scanning. Zootaxa 3340: 29-43, more
Mollen, F.H.; Jagt, J.W.M. (2012). The taxonomic value of rostral nodes of extinct sharks, with comments on previous records of the genus Lamna (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Pliocene of Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina (USA). Acta Geol. Pol. 62(1): 117-127, more
Fraaije, R.H.B.; van Bakel, B.W.M.; Jagt, J.W.M.; Mollen, F.H. (2011). A new axiid (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) from the Neogene of Belgium and the Netherlands. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 260(2): 157-163. dx.doi.org/10.1127/0077-7749/2011/0167, more
Mollen, F.H. (2010). A partial rostrum of the Porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks. Geol. Belg. 13(1-2): 61-76, more
Natanson, L.J.; Wintner, S.P.; Johansson, F.; Piercy, A.; Campbell, P.; De Maddalena, A.; Gulak, S.J.B.; Human, B.; Fulgosi, F.C.; Ebert, D.A.; Hemida, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Vanni, S.; Burgess, G.H.; Compagno, L.J.V.; Wedderburn-Maxwell, A. (2008). Ontogenetic vertebral growth patterns in the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 361: 267-278. dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps07399, more
- Flaum, B.; Schmitt, K.; Hu, R.; Kong, T.F.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Debiais-Thibaud, M.; Dean, M. (2025). Staghorn or stingray? High-resolution network analysis of cartilaginous trabeculae, in: SCIB 2025: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 3-7 January, Atlanta, GA: Abstracts. , more
- Li, A.; Schindler, M.; Paskin, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Scott, E.; Hauert, S.; Payne, N.; Cade, D.; Goldbogen, J.; Mollen, F.H.; Baum, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2025). Functional models from limited data: parametric anatomy and 3D kinematics of basking shark feeding, in: SCIB 2025: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 3-7 January, Atlanta, GA. , more
- Schindler, M.; Li, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Payne, N.; Amini, S.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Hu, R.; Dean, M. (2025). Against the grain: untangling the tangled denticles of basking sharks, in: SCIB 2025: The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference, 3-7 January, Atlanta, GA. , more
- Li, T.; Paskin, M.; Schindler, M.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Mollen, F.H.; Baumgärtner, D.; Hanna, S.; Dean, M. (2023). Lessons from really big fish: integrating incomplete data in parametric modelling of coherent skeletal model, in: ICVM 2023: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 1 August 2023 . , more
- Schindler, M.; Liu, C.; Li, T.; Paskin, M.; Png, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Payne, N.; Amini, S.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Dean, M. (2023). Armed to the teeth: Adaptive functionality of shark denticles from material and mechanical perspectives, in: ICVM 2023: International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Cairns, Australia, 28 July - 1 August 2023 . , more
- Assemat, A.; Adnet, S.; Bayez, K.; Hassler, A.; Arnaud-Godet, F.; Mollen, F.H.; Girard, C.; Martin, J.E. (2022). De l’émail à l’estomac: apport de la géochimie isotopique du calcium à l’étude du régime alimentaire chez les élasmobranches actuels et fossiles, in: RIF 2022: 8e Rencontres de l'Ichtyologie en France, 15-18 mars 2022, Paris: Livre des résumés. pp. 9-10, more
- Schindler, M.; Liu, C.; Surapaneni, V.A.; Tang, T.; De Falco, P.; Mollen, F.H.; Amini, S.; Dean, M.; Hanna, S. (2022). Hierarchical design of basking shark gill rakers and their potential for high-volume suspension filters, in: SICB Annual Meeting 3–7 January 2022, Phoenix, Arizona. , more
- Collareta, A.; Mollen, F.H.; Merella, M.; Casati, S.; Di Cencio, A. (2020). Ginglymostomatid-like multicuspid teeth in an elusive rajid skate from the Tuscan Pliocene, in: 64th Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting. Virtual meeting 16th–18th December 2020 hosted by Oxford University Museum of Natural History, UK: Programme, abstracts and AGM papers. pp. 63, more
- Goolaerts, G.; Christiaens, Y.; Mollen, F.H.; Steurbaut, E.; Mottequin, B. (2020). Applying micro-CT imaging in the study of fossil sepiids and nautilids (Cephalopoda): examples from the Eocene of Belgium. Abstracts - Geological Society of America 52(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020am-357179, more
- Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H.; Naylor, G.J.P. (2018). L’histoire de la disparition précoce du Squale bouclé (Echinorhinus brucus) révélée par une approche intégrative en écologie historique, in: VIIe Rencontres de l’Ichtyologie en France, Paris, 27-30 mars 2018. pp. 81, more
- Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2018). The story of the early extirpation of the Bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus, Echinorhinidae) exhumed by an integrative historical ecology approach, in: ICES WGHIST Report 2018. Interim report of the Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (WGHIST) 4-7 September 2018 Brest, France. CM Documents - ICES, CM 2018(HAPISG:19): pp. 23-24, more
- Iglésias, S.P.; Mollen, F.H. (2018). Cold case: The early disappearance of the Bramble shark (Echinorhinus brucus) in European and adjacent waters. Oceans Past News 10: 1-5, more
- Mollen, F.H.; Hilte, F.; Bauwens, J. (2016). Onderzoek blaast nieuw leven in oude braamhaai van Oostende, in: Lescrauwaet, A.-K. et al. (Ed.) Abstractenboek studiedag “Vissen in het verleden. Een multidisciplinaire kijk op de geschiedenis van de Belgische zeevisserij”. VLIZ Special Publication, 76: pp. 63-66, more
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