Dr Hanna Schenk
Postdoc

Research interests
- Optimal management of biotic natural resources
- Ecological-evolutionary-economic dynamics
- Structured populations and (human-induced) evolution
- Multiple objectives and values e.g. social welfare, biodiversity
- Uncertainty, stochastic dynamics and stochastic optimisation
Teaching
- Natural Resource use and Conservation Economics (assistant)
- Environmental and Biodiversity Economics (assistant)
- Evolutionary Game Theory
Curriculum vitae
2021 – present: | Postdoc, Biodiversity Economics Group, iDiv. Project: CO2Meso - A first carbon based risk assessment on mesopelagic resources, stressors and protection (BMBF) |
2019 – 2021: | Postdoc, Biodiversity Economics Group, iDiv. Project: SOMBEE - Scenarios of Marine Biodiversity and Evolution under Exploitation and climate change (DFG) |
2016 – 2019: | Doctoral student, Evolutionary Theory, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology |
2013 – 2015: | M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, University of Lübeck |
2009 – 2012: | B.Sc. Biochemistry, University of Potsdam |
Work in progress
- Hanna Schenk, Fabian Zimmermann, Martin Quaas (2023). The Economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-023-01078-9, open acces (read-only) version
- Multi-objective management of mixed-species forests
- Hanna Schenk, Michael Sieber (2019): Bacteriophage can promote the emergence of physiologically sub-optimal host phenotypes
Publications before iDiv
- Gaëlle Demarre, Victoria Prudent, Hanna Schenk, Emilie Rousseau, Marie-Agnes Bringer, Nicolas Barnich, Guy Tran Van Nhieu, Sylvie Rimsky, Silvia De Monte, Olivier Espéli. The Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli strain LF82 rely on SOS and stringent responses to survive, multiply and tolerate antibiotics within macrophages. PLOS Pathogens. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1008123
Abou Chakra M, Bumann S, Schenk H, Oschlies A, Traulsen A. Immediate action is the best strategy when facing uncertain climate change. Nature communications. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04968-1
Schenk H, Traulsen A, Gokhale CS. Chaotic provinces in the kingdom of the Red Queen, Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2017.07.027
iDiv publications
Schenk, H., Zimmermann, F., Quaas, M.
(2023): The Economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution. Nature SustainabilityMeier, F., Schenk, H.
(2022): Editorial. Natural Resource ModelingM. F. Quaas, J. N. Meya, H. Schenk, B. Bos, M. A. Drupp, T. Requate
(2021): The social cost of contacts: Theory and evidence for the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. PLOS ONESchenk, H., Schulenburg, H., Traulsen, A.
(2020): How long do Red Queen dynamics survive under genetic drift? A comparative analysis of evolutionary and eco-evolutionary models. Bmc Evolutionary Biology
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