Doctoral Researchers
| Name | Affiliation/Working group | PhD Project |
|---|---|---|
| Tarek Al Mustafa | Univ. of Jena/Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science | iAnswer: Unveiling iDiv Knowledge. Can Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs combined provide answers to people’s questions? |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |