Doctoral researchers
Please note that the list is not exhaustive as the publication of personal data requires the consent of the doctoral researchers.
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| Name | Affiliation/Working group | PhD Project | |
Ana Carolina Antunes | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | Future vertebrate food webs and ecosystem services under a climate and land-use change scenario | website |
| Ana Asato | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Future vertebrate food webs under land-use and global change | |
| Leonardo Bassi | UL/Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity research | Chemical and morphological traits as mediators of biotic interactions along plant diversity gradients | website |
| Elisabeth Bönisch | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | How does resource inequity affect aboveground-belowground diversity and ecosystem functioning | website |
| Diego Brizuela-Torres | UFZ/Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems | DeForESG – Deforestation explained by social-ecological dynamics and governance shifts | website |
| Andrea Büermann | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | VielFalterGarten | website |
| Andressa Cabral | UL/Evolution and Adaptation | Macroecology and macroevolution of plant – frugivore trait matching in the tropics | website |
| Ariane Chamoin | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | The concept of ‘result’ at the agriculture – environment – Public Health interface : prospects for public action | website |
| Saneesh Cherapurath Soman | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology
| How do a tall, unpalatable grass and fire separately and interactively influence the phenology, size structure, and demography of woody communities? | website |
Ioannis Constantinou | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Multidiversity-Multifunctionality | |
| Rajaditya Das | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | Animal movement: From traits to networks | website |
| Bennet Rohan Devasahayam | MLU/Microbial Diversity | Epigenetic factors as molecular drivers of microbial biodiversity | website |
Julia Dieskau | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | Assembly of native and exotic grassland communities – the role of mutual invasibility, priority effects and time | |
| Isha Dube | UL/Biodiversity Economics | International Trade and Biodiversity | website |
| Rowan Dunn-Capper | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | What is the Socioeconomic Value of Landscape Management? | website |
| Alexander Dyer | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | Modelling active dispersal of animals in spatial networks | website |
| Léonard El-Hokayem | MLU/Institute of Geosciences and Geography | Identifying threatened groundwater dependent ecosystems as local biodiversity hotspots in Saxony-Anhalt and globally via remote sensing | website |
| Sanne Evers | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Linking inter-annual climatic drivers to plant demographics rate | website |
| Jennifer Gabriel | Univ. of Jena/Molecular Interaction Ecology | Effects of intraspecific variation in functional traits on plant-herbivore-microbe interactions in white clover | website |
| Nora Haack | UL/Biology | Rare for a reason? - Scale dependence of determinants of rarity and diversity of xylobiont beetles | website |
| Sophie Harzer | UL/Biodiversity Economics | Valuing Natural Capital under Uncertainty | website |
| Yva Herion | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | website | |
| Jonna Heuschele | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | The effects of landscape heterogeneity, land use intensity and crop diversity on the diversity and health of beneficial arthropods providing multiple ecosystem services in agro-ecosystems | website |
| Susanne Horka | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | Spatial scaling of Porphyry Outcrop Trends | website |
| Christopher Hutengs | UL/Physics and Geosciences | Soil microbial community assessment with portable mid-infrared and visible to near-infrared spectroscopy | website |
| Desiree Jakubka | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of Plants | Responses of herbaceous savanna vegetation to land use | website |
| Theresa Jörger-Hickfang | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Impacts of land-use change on Biodiversity | website |
| Jana Kachler | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | Effects of land management on the supply and demand of ecosystem services | website |
| Claudia Kelsall | UL/Biodiversity Economics | CRaMoRes: Changing Risks and Mobile Common Pool Resources | website |
| Lea Kolb | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | How does the Common Agricultural Policy shape farmer decisions, agricultural landscapes and biodiversity? | website |
| Vamsi Krishna Kommineni | MPI for Biogeochemistry/Functional Biogeography | Evaluating global patterns of leaf size using machine learning approaches | website |
| Patrizia König | Univ. of Jena/Systematic Botany | Are functional traits related to phenological shifts on different spatial scales? | website |
| Paul Kühn | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of higher Plants | FunSpec - Detecting long-term functional changes in biodiversity: boosting analyses of herbarium specimens using | website |
| Jingyi Li | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | The implication of information flow on ecological networks structure and biodiversity | website |
| Lina Lüttgert | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | Biodiversity trends for Germany using repeated habitat mapping data | webite |
| Susanne Marr | MLU/Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) | Boosting Biodiversity with performing Eco- and Meta-Metabolomics for plant communities – Introducing an integrative analytical and bioinformatics approach | website |
| Laura Méndez | UL/Evolution and Adaptation | Genomic Signatures of palms with megafaunal fruits on Madagascar | website |
| Elena Motivans | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Unravelling pollinator-plant networks across a land-use gradient | website |
| Linh Mai Nhat Nguyen | UL/Evolutionary Ecology | Evolution of fruit scent in Madagascar's figs | website |
| Andrea Pacheco | UL/Macroecology and Society | Influence of land governance on global land-cover and biodiversity change | website |
| Delphine Panziera | MLU/General Zoology | Rapid evolution of RNA viruses as a driver of insect pollinator decline | website |
| Dimitra Papantoniou | Univ. of Jena/Molecular Interaction Ecology | An integrated "omics" approach to unravel the impact of root symbionts on tomato direct and indirect defenses against herbivores | website |
| Guillaume Patoine | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Global drivers of soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions | website |
Nikolaj Rauff Poulsen | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | website | |
| Tobias Proß | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | Leaf near-infrared spectra as predictors for forest ecosystem function | website |
| Yuanshu Pu | UL/Evolution and Adaptation | Adaptive evolution of plant-frugivore interactions on Madagascar | website |
| Konstantin Reisner | UL/Biodiversity Economics | Quantifying the impact of climate change on economic production using satellite data | website |
| Julia Rouet-Leduc | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | GRAZELIFE:Grazing for wildlife prevention, Ecosystem Services Provision, nature conversation and landscape management | website |
| Kevin Rozario | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | DR. FOREST - Diversity of FORESTs affecting human health and well-being | website |
| Robin Schmidt | UFZ/Community Ecology | The importance of antagonistic interactions for plant species | website |
| Rike Schwarz | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | BETA-FOR Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests | website |
| Josiane Segar | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Assessing the potential for natural restoration and rewilding in European landscapes | website |
| Minghua Shen | MLU/Biodiversity Synthesis | A global-scale sythesis of land-use effects on freshwater biodiversity | website |
| Rachel Souza Ferreira | UL/Evolution and Adaptation | Macroevolution and Biogeography of Mimosoideae | website |
| Marilia Souza Lucas | MLU/Geobotany / Plant Ecology | Harnessing the power of RADseq data to achieve a more mechanistic understanding of rapid evolution | website |
| Gideon Stein | Univ. of Jena/Computer Vision Group | Causal Reasoning and Deep Learning for Understanding Changes in the Soil-Plant-Climate Interactions | website |
| Florian Steinebrunner | Univ. of Jena | website | |
| Marie Sünnemann | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Effects of Land-use on Soil Functioning in a Changing World | website |
| Jördis Terlau | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | Quantifying emigration as function of bottom up and top down control | website |
| Amibeth Thompson | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Plant-Pollinator networks in agroecosystems across space and time | website |
| Axel Touw | Univ. of Jena/Molecular Interaction Ecology | The role of biosynthesis versus transport for glucosinolate allocation in response to aboveground and belowground sink manipulating herbivores | website |
| Jaya Upadhyay | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Forest Communities across natural and anthropogenic gradients in Eastern Himalayas | website |
| Daniel Vedder | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | Simulating biodiversity dynamics on farmlands to improve policy investments | website |
Francisco Velásquez Puentes | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | The evolution and diversification of neotropical dry forests: from micro to macro scales | website |
| Neeraja Venkataraman | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Population dynamics and species distribution modeling of tree species in Eastern Ghats, India | website |
| Julia von Gönner | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | Development and evaluation of a Citizen Science programme for freshwater monitoring to assess the ecological status and pesticide contamination of streams | website |
| Franziska Walther | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | Development of a pollen analytical method for the determination of food plants | website |
| Alexandra Werner | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | Changing Food Webs in the Anthropocene | website |
| Caitlin Wilkinson | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | website | |
| Huimin Yi | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Mycorrhiza in tree diversity effects on ecosystem functions and food web | website |
| Romy Zeiss | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Priorities for effective soil biodiversity and ecosystem service conservation | website |
| Leana Zoller | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Plant-pollinator networks in the Arctic | website |
| Annika Zuleger | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Rewilding trends in the Peneda-Geres National Park and the Oder Delta | website |
Alumni
| Name | Current position | Institution |
| Irene Bender | Postdoctoral Researcher | Instituto de Ecologia Regional (IER) (CONICET - UNT), Argentina |
| Solveig Franziska Bucher | Postdoctoral Researcher | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany |
| Yolanda Cáceres | Environmental Panner/Geodata Manager | IHB Ingenieurdienstleistungen GmbH, Halle/Saale, Germany |
| Nathaly R. Guerrero Ramirez | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Göttingen, Germany |
| Belinda Kahnt | Postdoctoral Researcher | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| Stefan Kupers | Data Scientist | Qiagen GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Ines Martins | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Leverhulme Center for Anthropocene Biodiversity, York, UK |
| Bettina Ohse | Postdoctoral Researcher | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany |
| Andrea Perino | Science-Policy Coordinator | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany |
| Ingmar Staude | Postdoctoral Researcher | Leipzig University, Germany |
| Madhav Thakur | Assistant Professor | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Panagiotis Theodorou | Postdoctoral Researcher | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
