Doctoral Researchers

NameAffiliation/Working groupPhD ProjectWebsite
Ana AsatoUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyFuture vertebrate food webs under land-use and global changewebsite
Patrick BaanUFZ/Physiological DiversityPlant nutrient responseswebsite
Caterina BarrassoUL/Validation, uncertainty analysis and log term improvement of derived global time series to essential land use variableswebsite
Leonardo BassiUL/Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity researchChemical and morphological traits as mediators of biotic interactions along plant diversity gradientswebsite
Elisabeth BönischUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyHow does resource inequity affect aboveground-belowground diversity and ecosystem functioningwebsite
Diego Brizuela-TorresUFZ/Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological SystemsDeForESG – Deforestation explained by social-ecological dynamics and governance shiftswebsite
Andressa CabralUL/Evolution and AdaptationMacroecology and macroevolution of plant – frugivore trait matching in the tropicswebsite
Niranjana ChethanaMLU/Species Interaction Ecology  Butterfly Biodiversity and the Structure of herbivore-plant-pollinator Networks in Response to Habitat Fragmentation in the Western Ghats in Indiawebsite
Evangelia Linda ChronopoulouUniv. of Jena/Evolutionary EcologyBiotic and abiotic drivers of variation in fruit traitswebsite
Ioannis ConstantinouUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyMultidiversity-Multifunctionalitywebsite
Thibault CoqueryMLU/Species Interaction EcologyCommunity re-assemblage of grasslands under global change: integrating climate niches and experimental species (im)migrattionwebsite
Rajaditya DasUniv. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity ScienceAnimal movement: From traits to networkswebsite
Julia DieskauMLU/Geobotany and Botanical GardenAssembly of native and exotic grassland communities – the role of mutual invasibility, priority effects and timewebsite
Emily DovydaitisMLU/Symbiont EvolutionThe biogeography of insect and symbiont genetic diversitywebsite
Léonard El-HokayemMLU/Institute of Geosciences and GeographyIdentifying threatened groundwater dependent ecosystems as local biodiversity hotspots in Saxony-Anhalt and globally via remote sensingwebsite
Marie EnglertUL/Systematic Botany and Functional BiodiversityThe role of protected areas in mitigating plant biodiversity loss in Germanywebsite
Esther FelgentreffUniv. of Jena/Vegetation EcologyCapturing biodiversity in home gardenswebsite
Jennifer GabrielUniv. of Jena/Molecular Interaction EcologyEffects of intraspecific variation in functional traits on plant-herbivore-microbe interactions in white cloverwebsite
Sophie HarzerUL/Biodiversity EconomicsValuing Natural Capital under Uncertaintywebsite
Amelie HauerUL/Soil Biodiversity and Functions
Soil food web control of the carbon cycle		website
Yva HerionUFZ/Physiological DiversityEffects of climate change, land use intensity and nitrogen on plant productivity, chemistry and ecophysiologywebsite
Jonna HeuscheleUFZ/Biodiversity and PeopleThe effects of landscape heterogeneity, land use intensity and crop diversity on the diversity and health of beneficial arthropods providing multiple ecosystem services in agro-ecosystemswebsite
Christopher HutengsUL/Physics and GeosciencesSoil microbial community assessment with portable mid-infrared and visible to near-infrared spectroscopywebsite
Desiree JakubkaUniv. of Jena/Biodiversity of PlantsResponses of herbaceous savanna vegetation to land usewebsite
Zarah JandaUL/Experimental Interaction EcologySoil Multistabilitywebsite
Pauline JennertUL/Molecular Evolution and Plant SystematicsSynthesis through space and timeSynthesis through space and time: Integrative taxonomic revision of the Mahogany tree genus Toonawebsite
João Monneratwebsite
Theresa Jörger-HickfangMLU/Biodiversity ConservationImpacts of land-use change on Biodiversitywebsite
Aaron Kauffeldt


Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity in the AnthropoceneEffekte von Extremwetterereignissen auf die Verbreitung und Populationsdynamik von Brutvögeln in Deutschlandwebsite
Claudia KelsallUL/Biodiversity EconomicsCRaMoRes: Changing Risks and Mobile Common Pool Resourceswebsite
Lea KolbUFZ/Biodiversity and PeopleHow does the Common Agricultural Policy shape farmer decisions, agricultural landscapes and biodiversity?website
Vamsi Krishna KommineniMPI for Biogeochemistry/Functional BiogeographyEvaluating global patterns of leaf size using machine learning approacheswebsite
Patrizia KönigUniv. of Jena/Systematic BotanyAre functional traits related to phenological shifts on different spatial scales?website
Kevin KožićMLU/Plant EcologyPopulation history studies of Centaurea stoebe-influence of genom size, soil microbes, climate and time on invasion successwebsite
Paul KühnUniv. of Jena/Biodiversity of higher PlantsFunSpec – Detecting long-term functional changes in biodiversity: boosting analyses of herbarium specimens usingwebsite
Jingyi LiUniv. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity ScienceThe implication of information flow on ecological networks structure and biodiversitywebsite
Lina LüttgertMLU/Geobotany and Botanical GardenBiodiversity trends for Germany using repeated habitat mapping datawebite
Laura MéndezUL/Evolution and AdaptationGenomic Signatures of palms with megafaunal fruits on Madagascarwebsite
Elena MotivansUFZ/Species Interaction EcologyUnravelling pollinator-plant networks across a land-use gradientwebsite
Linh Mai Nhat NguyenUL/Evolutionary EcologyEvolution of fruit scent in Madagascar’s figswebsite
Delphine PanzieraMLU/General ZoologyRapid evolution of RNA viruses as a driver of insect pollinator declinewebsite
Guillaume PatoineUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyGlobal drivers of soil microbial communities and ecosystem functionswebsite
Nikolaj Rauff PoulsenMLU/Biodiversity Conservation website
Yuanshu PuUL/Evolution and AdaptationAdaptive evolution of plant-frugivore interactions on Madagascarwebsite
Konstantin ReisnerUL/Biodiversity EconomicsQuantifying the impact of climate change on economic production using satellite datawebsite
Kevin RozarioUFZ/Biodiversity and PeopleDR. FOREST – Diversity of FORESTs affecting human health and well-beingwebsite
Rike SchwarzUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyBETA-FOR Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forestswebsite
Minghua ShenMLU/Biodiversity SynthesisA global-scale sythesis of land-use effects on freshwater biodiversitywebsite
Rachel Souza FerreiraUL/Evolution and AdaptationMacroevolution and Biogeography of Mimosoideaewebsite
Marilia Souza LucasMLU/Geobotany / Plant EcologyHarnessing the power of RADseq data to achieve a more mechanistic understanding of rapid evolutionwebsite
Gideon SteinUniv. of Jena/Computer Vision GroupCausal Reasoning and Deep Learning for Understanding Changes in the Soil-Plant-Climate Interactionswebsite
Florian SteinebrunnerUniv. of Jena website
Alexander SternbergMLU/Geobotany and Botanical GardenPlants as ecosystems – analysing phytomicrobiomes and their shift due to biodiversity loss and global changewebsite
Jaya UpadhyayUFZ/Species Interaction EcologyForest Communities across natural and anthropogenic gradients in Eastern Himalayaswebsite
Daniel VedderUFZ/Biodiversity and PeopleSimulating biodiversity dynamics on farmlands to improve policy investmentswebsite
Francisco Velásquez PuentesUFZ/Species Interaction EcologyThe evolution and diversification of neotropical dry forests: from micro to macro scaleswebsite
Franziska WaltherUFZ/Physiological DiversityDevelopment of a pollen analytical method for the determination of food plantswebsite
Caitlin WilkinsonUniv. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science website
Aklilu Wodebo WolaThe Effects of Time since Restoration and of Restoration Methods on Biodiversity and Carbon Stock in Sidama Region, Ethiopiawebsite
Huimin YiUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyMycorrhiza in tree diversity effects on ecosystem functions and food webwebsite
Romy ZeissUL/Experimental Interaction EcologyPriorities for effective soil biodiversity and ecosystem service conservationwebsite
Annika ZulegerMLU/Biodiversity ConservationRewilding trends in the Peneda-Geres National Park and the Oder Deltawebsite

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