Doctoral Researchers
| Name | Affiliation/Working group | PhD Project |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick Baan | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | Plant nutrient responses |
| Caterina Barrasso | UL/ | Validation, uncertainty analysis and log term improvement of derived global time series to essential land use variables |
| Marie Cadiz Bodier | MLU/Symbiont Evolution | To kill or not to kill: Evolution of faculative male-killing Spiroplasma in Neotropical Drosophila |
| Michelle Borgers | MLU/Symbiont Evolution | Dynamics of symbiont evolution across the psyllid tree of life (SymPToL) |
| Diego Brizuela-Torres | UFZ/Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems | DeForESG – Deforestation explained by social-ecological dynamics and governance shifts |
| Niranjana Chethana | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | Butterfly Biodiversity and the Structure of herbivore-plant-pollinator Networks in Response to Habitat Fragmentation in the Western Ghats in India |
| Evangelia Linda Chronopoulou | Univ. of Jena/Evolutionary Ecology | Biotic and abiotic drivers of variation in fruit traits |
| Ioannis Constantinou | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Multidiversity-Multifunctionality |
| Thibault Coquery | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | Community re-assemblage of grasslands under global change: integrating climate niches and experimental species (im)migrattion |
| Rajaditya Das | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | Animal movement: From traits to networks |
| Emily Dovydaitis | MLU/Symbiont Evolution | The biogeography of insect and symbiont genetic diversity |
| 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 |
| Marie Englert | UL/Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity | The role of protected areas in mitigating plant biodiversity loss in Germany |
| Esther Felgentreff | Univ. of Jena/Vegetation Ecology | Capturing biodiversity in home gardens |
| Jennifer Gabriel | Univ. of Jena/Molecular Interaction Ecology | Effects of intraspecific variation in functional traits on plant-herbivore-microbe interactions in white clover |
| Sophie Harzer | UL/Biodiversity Economics | Valuing Natural Capital under Uncertainty |
| Amelie Hauer | UL/Soil Biodiversity and Functions | Soil food web control of the carbon cycle |
| Yva Herion | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | Effects of climate change, land use intensity and nitrogen on plant productivity, chemistry and ecophysiology |
| 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 |
| Susanne Horka | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | Spatial scaling of Porphyry Outcrop Trends |
| Christopher Hutengs | UL/Physics and Geosciences | Soil microbial community assessment with portable mid-infrared and visible to near-infrared spectroscopy |
| Desiree Jakubka | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of Plants | Responses of herbaceous savanna vegetation to land use |
| Zarah Janda | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Soil Multistability |
| Pauline Jennert Orschel | UL/Molecular Evolution and Plant Systematics | Synthesis through space and timeSynthesis through space and time: Integrative taxonomic revision of the Mahogany tree genus Toona |
| Theresa Jörger-Hickfang | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Impacts of land-use change on Biodiversity |
| Aaron Kauffeldt | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity in the Anthropocene | Effekte von Extremwetterereignissen auf die Verbreitung und Populationsdynamik von Brutvögeln in Deutschland |
| Patrizia König | Univ. of Jena/Systematic Botany | Are functional traits related to phenological shifts on different spatial scales? |
| Kevin Kožić | MLU/Plant Ecology | Population history studies of Centaurea stoebe-influence of genom size, soil microbes, climate and time on invasion success |
| Torvid Kreisler | MLU/Philosophical faculty I | Impacts of biodiversity on physical fitness, sociability, and health in Saxony-Anhalt and beyond |
| João Monnerat Lanna | MLU | |
| April Lyn Leonar | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | The role of biotic drivers of oak-nematode interactions on the adaption and acclimation of trees under climate change |
| Pia Loeffke | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Tree diversity effects as a driver of soil multifunctionality and stability under climate extremes |
| Thomas Medicus | Univ. of Jena/Evolutionary Ecology | IntegSaat: Integration of dead wood in direct seeding of Silver fir (Abies alba) and Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) for the establishment of stable, climate tolerant mixed forest ecosystems in the Hildburghausen Forest |
| Elena Motivans | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Unravelling pollinator-plant networks across a land-use gradient |
| Marius Munscheck | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | What are the human benefits of soilt multifunctionality? |
| Elenora Neugebauer | ||
| Linh Mai Nhat Nguyen | UL/Evolutionary Ecology | Evolution of fruit scent in Madagascar’s figs |
| Delphine Panziera | MLU/General Zoology | Rapid evolution of RNA viruses as a driver of insect pollinator decline |
| Guillaume Patoine | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Global drivers of soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions |
| Nikolaj Rauff Poulsen | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Monitoring structural connectivity of protected areas across Europe (working title) |
| Leopold Preuß | MLU/Symbiont Evolution | Evolution of potential nutritional symbiosis between biotin providing wolbachia and solitary bee species |
| Laura Quintero Uribe | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Defining a framework for Rewilding European landscape in the Anthropocene |
| Rajat Rastogi | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | ole of fire and ungulates in ecosystem recovery of invaded dry forests in India |
| Konstantin Reisner | UL/Biodiversity Economics | Quantifying the impact of climate change on economic production using satellite data |
| Marvin Rieck | MLU/Physiological Diversity | SafePol (Safeguarding pollinators facing multiple stressors in multifunctional landscapes) – Options for land-based mitigation of multiple stressors to plant-pollinator systems |
| Kevin Rozario | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | DR. FOREST – Diversity of FORESTs affecting human health and well-being |
| Srijna Saxena | UL/Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity | Root functional traits and their importance for drought resistance in grassland plants |
| Linn Schaan | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | Unveiling Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) instruments’ effects on biodiversity, climate mitigation and -adaptation |
| Rike Schwarz | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | BETA-FOR Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests |
| Minghua Shen | MLU/Biodiversity Synthesis | A global-scale sythesis of land-use effects on freshwater biodiversity |
| Miriam Simon | UFZ/UL/Department of Molecular Toxicology | Exploring the impact of oil palm plantation use on the gut microbiome of Malaysian macaques |
| Pratyaksh Singh | MLU/Symbiont Evolution | Experimental evolution of inherited symbionts in novel hosts |
| Saneesh Cherapurath Soman | MLU | How do a tall, unpalatable grass and fire separately and interactively influence the phenology, size structure, and demography of woody communities? |
| Rachel Souza Ferreira | UL/Evolution and Adaptation | Macroevolution and Biogeography of Mimosoideae |
| Marilia Souza Lucas | MLU/Geobotany / Plant Ecology | Harnessing the power of RADseq data to achieve a more mechanistic understanding of rapid evolution |
| Gideon Stein | Univ. of Jena/Computer Vision Group | Causal Reasoning and Deep Learning for Understanding Changes in the Soil-Plant-Climate Interactions |
| Florian Steinbrunner | Univ. of Jena | |
| Alexander Sternberg | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | Plants as ecosystems – analysing phytomicrobiomes and their shift due to biodiversity loss and global change |
| Deike Stoffers | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | Land- use effects on plant regeneration strategies in grasslands and their relation to community assembly |
| Josephine Ulrich | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of Plants | Patterns in plant phenology and intra-specific trait variability in grassland species |
| Jaya Upadhyay | UFZ/Species Interaction Ecology | Forest Communities across natural and anthropogenic gradients in Eastern Himalayas |
| Daniel Vedder | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | Simulating biodiversity dynamics on farmlands to improve policy investments |
| Anna Katharina Vincze | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of Plants | Monoglian vegetation in the past and present-deducting plant occurances, plant performance and plant phenology from herbarium specimens |
| Martina Marei Viti | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | A biodiversity monitoring system for the Trans-European Nature Network |
| Weronika Vörös | MLU/Geobotany and Botanical Garden | The use of Herbarium specimen to track spacio-temporal changes in genetic diversity, fitness and phenology of endangered plant species in Saxony-Anhalt |
| Franziska Walther | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | Development of a pollen analytical method for the determination of food plants |
| Gabriel Walther | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of Plants | The importance of functionally rare species for ecosystem functioning in grasslands |
| Lu Wang | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | The role of tree-nematode interactions in the acclimation and adaption of trees |
| Kai Jürgen Weber | UL | Remotely sensed characterization of vegetation as a source of bioaerosol emissions |
| Caitlin Wilkinson | Univ. of Jena/Theory in Biodiversity Science | |
| Bilyana Stoykova Wild | MLU/General Zoology | Wild bee body size and wing fluctuating asymmetry as response traits to anthropogenic disturbance in agriculturally dominated landscapes in Saxony-Anhalt |
| Aklilu Wodebo Wola | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | The Effects of Time since Restoration and of Restoration Methods on Biodiversity and Carbon Stock in Sidama Region, Ethiopia |
| Felicitas Wolf | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | The restoration of grasslands in abandonedarable land in Saxony-Anhalt: the consequences of temporally differentiated plant recovery on pollinators, their interations and essential ecosystem services |
| Aspen Matilda Workman | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in Plant Demographic Models |
| Constantinos Xenophontos | Testing Ecological Theories with microbial Communities | |
| Yuping Zhong | MLU/Species Interaction Ecology | Testing whether new computer vision methods can detecting spatial environmental change in pollinator biodiversity and pollination |
| Antonia Therese Ziegler | Univ. of Jena/Biodiversity of Plants | Frost resistance – a neglected driver of plant phenology and distribution? |
| Anna Zueva | UL/Senckenberg | Viral hotspots and fluxes across above- and belowground food webs (ViralWeb) |
| Annika Zuleger | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Rewilding trends in the Peneda-Geres National Park and the Oder Delta |