yDiv PhD Alumns 2024

Amibeth Thompson, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Supervisor: Tiffany Knight

PhD project title: Sampling Pollinator Communities and Interactions Across Changing Landscapes: Insights from a German Case Study

Current position: Research Assistant at the University of Freiburg

Angelos Amyntas, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Supervisor: Ulrich Brose

PhD project title: Multi-trophic energy fluxes in soil food webs along plant diversity–productivity gradients

Axel Touw, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Supervisor: Nicole van Dam

PhD project title: Down to the roots: Studying the mechanisms and ecological consequences of belowground defence responses in Brassica rapa

Current position: Scientist at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops

Jana Kachler, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Supervisor: Aletta Bonn

PhD project title: Effects of land management on the supply and demand of ecosystem services

Current position: Event Manager at UFZ

Jördis Terlau, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Supervisor: Ulrich Brose

PhD project title: Quantifying emigration as function of bottom-up and top-down control

Current position: Scientific Coordinator at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

Julia von Gönner, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Supervisor: Aletta Bonn

PhD project title: Development and evaluation of a Citizen Science monitoring programme for pesticides in stream ecosystems

Current position: Postdoc at iDiv

Marie Sünnemann, Leipzig University

Supervisor: Nico Eisenhauer

PhD project title: Effects of land-use on soil functioning in a changing world

Current position: Postdoc at iDiv

Neeraja Venkataraman, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Supervisor: Tiffany Knight

PhD project title: Population dynamics and species distribution modeling of tree species in Eastern Ghats, India

Current position: Research Officer at Forest Stewardship Council FSC India

Nora Haack, Leipzig University

Supervisor: Martin Schlegel

PhD project title: Rare for a reason? – Scale dependence of determinants of rarity and diversity of xylobiont beetles

Current position: Research Assistant at the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Perttu Anttonen, University of Göttingen (TreeDí)

Supervisor: Andreas Schuldt

PhD project title: Bottom-up and top-down drivers of herbivory

Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Environmental and Ecological Statistics Group at the University of Helsinki

Rowan Dunn-Capper, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Supervisor: Henrique Pereira

PhD project title: What is the socioeconomic value of landscape management?

Current position: Scientific Officer at the European Topic Centre on Biodiversity & Ecosystems

Tobias Proß, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Supervisor: Helge Bruelheide

PhD project title: The role of leaf traits in forest ecosystems: mediators in the biodiversity ecosystem-function relationship

Current position: Postdoc and Scientific Employee at the MultiTroph project at MLU