P1: Spatial above- and belowground complementarity
Tama Ray
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 351 463-31313
Email: tama.ray@idiv.de
Alexander Täuber
Doctoral Researcher
Email: alexander.taeuber@
idiv.de
Dr. Yi Li
Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: liyi2021@ibcas.ac.cn
Ting Tang
Doctoral Researcher
Email: tangting19
@ibcas.ac.cn
Prof. Dr. Goddert von Oheimb
PI
Phone: +49 351 463 31288
Email: Goddert_v_Oheimb@
tu-dresden.de
Phone: +86 10 62836051
Email: liuxiaojuan06@
ibcas.ac.cn
Prof. Dr. Keping Ma
Co-PI
Phone: +86 10 62836223
Email: kpma@ibcas.ac.cn
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wensheng Bu
Co-PI
Email: bws2007@163.com
P2: Complementarity through trait variation
Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 345 55 26263
Email: pablo.castro@idiv.de
Akhil Murali
Doctoral Researcher
Phone:
Email: akhil.murali@
leuphana.de
Gaigai Ding
Doctoral Researcher
Email: gai_gaiding
@163.com
Xiaoxiao Han
Doctoral Researcher
Email: 2593072192
@qq.com
P3: Tree interaction history and temporal complementarity
Lena Sachsenmaier
Doctoral Researcher
Phone:
Email: lena.sachsenmaier
@idiv.de
Michèle ter Huurne
Doctoral Researcher
P4: Herbivory
Julia Imola Piko
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 (0)551 39-26086
Email: julia.piko
@uni-goettingen.de
Rachit Pratap Singh
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +491636910184
Email: rachit.singh@
uni-goettingen.de
Jingting Chen
Doctoral Researcher
Email: chenjingting
@ioz.ac.cn
Phone: +49 (0)551 39-24486
Email: andreas.schuldt@
forst.uni-goettingen.de
P5: Leaf fungal pathogens
Mariem Saadani
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 345 5526263
Email: mariem.saadani@
botanik.uni-halle.de
Michael Köhler
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 345 55 26267
Email: michael.koehler@ idiv.de
Prof. Dr. Helge Bruelheide
PI, Speaker of TreeDì
Phone: + 49 345 55 26222
Email: helge.bruelheide@
botanik.uni-halle.de
Tibor Drost
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 345 55 26267
Email: tibor.drost@idiv.de
P6-2: Plant metabolomes and complementarity in root functions
Gabriela Escaliante
Doctoral Researcher
Email: gabriela.escaliante@
idiv.de
Sirong Zhang
Doctoral Researcher
Email: zhangsr@ibcas.ac.cn
Phone: +49 341 9733165
Email: nicole.vandam@
idiv.de
Phone: +49 341 9733279
Email: omer.nevo@idiv.de
Dr. Steffen Neumann
Co-PI
Phone: +49 345 5582 1470
Email: Steffen.Neumann@
ipb-halle.de
Phone: +86 10 64889813
Email: xuxingl@hotmail.com
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Naili Zhang
Co-PI
Email: zhangnaili@bjfu.edu.cn
P6-3: Drivers of soil micro-eukaryote richness
Justus Aisu
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 345 55 26254
Email: justus.aisu@idiv.de
P7: Rhizosphere and root microbes
Hafeez Ul Haq
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 345 5585316
Email: hafeez.ulhaq@ufz.de
Thomas McNeil
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 341 60253772
Email: thomas.mcneil@
ufz.de
P8: Functional diversity of soil organisms
Henriette Christel
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 341 9733116
Email: henriette.christel@
idiv.de
Tobias Käcks
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 341 9739221
Email: tobias.kaecks@idiv.de
Kui Wang
Doctoral Researcher
Email: wangkui15@
mails.ucas.ac.cn
Prof. Dr. Nico Eisenhauer
Co-PI
Phone: +49 341 9733167
Email: nico.eisenhauer@
idiv.de
Email: yfwang@ucas.ac.cn
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kai Xue
Co-PI
Email: xuekai@ucas.ac.cn
P9: Modelling generalised diversity interactions / P11: Higher order interactions
Wentao Yu
Doctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 341 9733178
Email: wentao.yu@idiv.de
Sebastian Mader
Doctoral Researcher
Phone:
Email: sebastian.mader@
idiv.de
Chenyu Huang
Doctoral Researcher
Email: huangchenyu_im@
126.com
Lan Yang
Doctoral Researcher
Email: 1097557081
@qq.com
Alexander Dyer
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone: +49 341 9733206
Email: alexander.dyer@
idiv.de
Prof. Dr. Weiguo Sang
PI (P9C)
Email: swg@muc.edu.cn
Assist. Prof. Dr. Shaopeng Wang
Co-PI (P9C) / PI (P11C)
Email: shaopeng.wang@
pku.edu.cn
Associated Doctoral Researchers
Mercator Fellows
Prof. Dr. John Connolly
School of Mathematics
University College Dublin
MLU Guest Professor
Email: john.connolly@ucd.ie
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Grossiord
EPFL + WSL
Plant Ecology Research Laboratory (PERL)
Email: charlotte.grossiord@epfl.ch
Prof. Dr. Merry Schuman
University of Zurich (UZH)
Spatial Genetics
Email: meredith.schuman@
geo.uzh.ch
Scientific Coordination
Dr. Stefan Trogisch
Phone: +49 345 55 26198
Email: stefan.trogisch@
botanik.uni-halle.de
Prof. Dr. Kai Xue
Email: xuekai@ucas.ac.cn
Alumni
Dr. Rémy Beugnon
Doctoral Researcher (P8G)
Doctoral degree: 2021
Email: remy.beugnon@
idiv.de
Dr. Florian Schnabel
Doctoral Researcher (P3G)
Doctoral degree: 2022
Dr. Georg Albert
Doctoral Researcher (P9G)
Doctoral degree: 2023
Email: georg.albert@
uni-goettingen.de
Dr. Perttu Anttonen
Doctoral Researcher (P4G)
Doctoral Degree: 2024
Email: perttu.p.anttonen@
gmail.com
Dr. Maria D. Perles-Garcia
Doctoral Researcher (P1G)
Doctoral degree: 2022
Email: mdperles@gmx.de
Dr. Andréa Davrinche
Doctoral Researcher (P2G)
Doctoral degree: 2023
Dr. Bala Singavarapu
Doctoral Researcher (P7G)
Doctoral degree: 2023
Dr. Tobias Proß
Assoc. Doctoral Researcher
Doctoral degree: 2024
Dr. Jianqing Du
Doctoral Researcher (P8C)
Doctoral degree: 2021
Email: jqdu@ucas.ac.cn
Dr. Hanjiao Gu
Doctoral Researcher (P1C)
Doctoral degree: 2021
Email: guhanjiao@qq.com
Dr. Huiyun Gan
Doctoral Researcher (P7C)
Doctoral degree: 2022
Email: ganhuiyun5@
163.com
Dr. Yi Li
Doctoral Researcher (P4C)
Doctoral degree: 2021
Email: liyi2021@ibcas.ac.cn
Dr. Min Liu
Doctoral Researcher (P6C)
Doctoral degree: 2022
Email: liumin_bj@qq.com
Dr. Tongyan Liu
Doctoral Researcher (P3C)
Doctoral degree: 2022
Email: tongyan.liu@
pku.edu.cn
