Rate My Professor Lonneke IJsseldijk

IJsseldijk's career highlights include key publications such as "Large amounts of marine debris found in sperm whales stranded along the North Sea coast in early 2016" (2016), "Best practice on cetacean post mortem investigation and tissue sampling–joint ACCOBAMS and ASCOBANS document" (2019), "Exposing the grey seal as a major predator of harbour porpoises" (2015), "Plastic ingestion by harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in the Netherlands: Establishing a standardised method" (2018), and "Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: strandings to inform conservation management" (2020). Recent works encompass "Traumatic injuries by grey seals on delphinids from northwest European waters" (2026) and "Postmortem Findings in Harbor Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Netherlands" (2021). She received the Stairway to Impact Award in 2022 from NWO Domain Science (€50,000) for translating research into societal impact through public engagement via social media and collaborations with volunteers. IJsseldijk holds roles on the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, ASCOBANS Advisory Committee and Intersessional Working Groups on Beaked Whales and Prey Resource Depletion, ICES Working Group on Marine Mammal Ecology, and Rijkswaterstaat's Wind op Zee Ecologisch Programma expert group on marine mammals and underwater noise. She teaches Veterinary Professional level 3 courses, advancing pathology diagnostics and conservation pathology.