| 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 | website |
| 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 | website |
| 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 | 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 |
| Jennifer Gabriel | Univ. of Jena/Molecular Interaction Ecology | Effects of intraspecific variation in functional traits on plant-herbivore-microbe interactions in white clover | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Delphine Panziera | MLU/General Zoology | Rapid evolution of RNA viruses as a driver of insect pollinator decline | website |
| Guillaume Patoine | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | Global drivers of soil microbial communities and ecosystem functions | website |
| Nikolaj Rauff Poulsen | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | | 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 |
| Kevin Rozario | UFZ/Biodiversity and People | DR. FOREST – Diversity of FORESTs affecting human health and well-being | website |
| Rike Schwarz | UL/Experimental Interaction Ecology | BETA-FOR Enhancing the structural diversity between patches for improving multidiversity and multifunctionality in production forests | 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 |
| 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 |
| Franziska Walther | UFZ/Physiological Diversity | Development of a pollen analytical method for the determination of food plants | 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 |
| Annika Zuleger | MLU/Biodiversity Conservation | Rewilding trends in the Peneda-Geres National Park and the Oder Delta | website |