Calls of the iDiv Synthesis Centre

Within the 12th call, sDiv has received 11 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 22 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 3 applicants for early career working groups as well as 10 applicants for SynFlex projects received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and were invited to hand in a full proposal.

After intensive discussions of the internal and external reviews of proposals of very high scientific quality, the sDiv Evaluation Board has decided to support 1 early career working groups, 8 SynFlex projects.

Congratulations to our new sDiv working groups and future sDiv collaborators!

Funded early career working groups

ECR12.02 sNext
PIs:
Nuria Galiana, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), ESP
Juan David González-Trujillo, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, COL

Funded SynFlex projects

SF12.02 sRealBioFun
PIs:
Yuxin Chen, Xiamen University, CHN
Donald Waller, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

SF12.03 sMacrobehaviour
PIs:
Sally Keith, Lancaster University, GB
Katharine Marske, University of Oklahoma, USA

SF12.04 sMacroS
PIs:
Anton Potapov, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, DEU
Nico Eisenhauer, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, DEU

SF12.05 sRED
PIs:
Jean-Philippe Lessard, Concordia University, CAN
Katie Marshall, University of British Columbia, CAN

SF12.07 sDETERMINE
PIs:
Victor Maus, Vienna University of Economics and Business, AUT
Arildo Dias, Goethe-University Frankfurt, DEU

SF12.08 sTREND
PIs:
Hervé Jactel, Institut national de la recherche agronomique , FRA
Simone Mereu, National Research Council of Italy – Institute for BioEconomy, ITA

SF12.09 sEXCRETE
PIs:
Amanda Subalusky, University of Florida, USA
Elizabeth le Roux, Aarhus University, DNK
Angélica González, Rutgers University, USA

SF12.10 sCREATE
PIs:
Emily Massingham, University of Queensland, AUS
Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland, AUS

Following our latest Postdoc Call, sDiv has received has received 27 proposals for individual postdoc projects (Call A) and 10 proposals for postdocs for already funded sDiv projects (Call B). We received many proposals of very high scientific quality and exciting new ideas. After intense discussions of  the sDiv Board and the given limitations of our budget in 2024, it was decided to support two individual postdocs and two postdocs associated with an already funded sDiv project.

Congratulations to our new sDiv postdocs – we are very much looking forward to welcome you to our team!

Funded individual postdoc:

Anne-Céline Granjon
Title: “Unraveling the relationship between genetic diversity, the latitudinal gradient in biodiversity, and life-history strategies”
Involved iDiv Members: Michael Gerth, Chloé Schmidt and Jonathan Chase

Ana Carolina Antunes
Title: “AmazonFlux: exploring human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across the Amazon forest”
Involved iDiv Members: Ulrich Brose, Henrique Pereira, Carsten Meyer,
Associated member: Talita Ferreira Amado

Funded postdoc associated to an already funded sDiv project:

Karl Andraczek
TItle: “Belowground plant strategies predict ecosystem functioning under climate change”
Associated with the sDiv working group sUnderfoot
Involved iDiv Member: Alexandra Weigelt, Helge Bruelheide

Clara María Arboleda Baena
TItle: “Comparative Analysis of Microbial Communities in the Global North and South: Exploring the Interplay between Data Availability and Mechanisms of Community Assembly Across Biomes”
Associated with the sDiv working group sIBTEDS
Involved iDiv Member: Birgitta König-Ries
Associated members: Stephanie Jurburg, Christian Ristok

Within the latest call, sDiv has received 15 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 13 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 6 applicants for early career working groups as well as 7 applicants for SynFlex projects received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and were invited to hand in a full proposal.

After intensive discussions of the internal and external reviews of proposals of very high scientific quality, the sDiv Evaluation Board has decided to support 4 early career working groups, 4 SynFlex projects. 1 SynFlex Project has to resubmit is proposal – the decision will be made in August 2023.

Congratulations to our new sDiv working groups and future sDiv collaborators!

Funded early career working groups

ECR11.01 sFutures
PIs:
Magda Garbowski, University of Wyoming, USA
Emma Ladouceur, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany

ECR11.02 sPectra
PIs:
Shan Kothari, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Teja Kattenborn, Leipzig University, Germany

ECR11.03 sConsume
PIs:
Fletcher Halliday, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Suz Everingham, University of Bern, Switzerland
Mayank Kohli, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India

ECR11.05 sFragment
PI:
Andres Felipe Suarez Castro, Griffith University, Australia

Funded SynFlex projects

SF11.01 sTime
PIs:
Pincelli Hull, Yale University, USA
Erin Saupe, University of Oxford, UK
Marina Rillo, University of Oldenburg, Germany

SF11.03 sBombus
PIs:
Brian Spiesman, Kansas State University, USA
Tiffany Knight, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
Christina Grozinger, Penn State University, USA

SF11.04 sSCAT
PIs:
Alta De Vos, Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Graeme Cumming, James Cook University, Australia

SF11.05 sARDINE
PI:
Christopher Monk, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

SynFlex project invited for a resubmission

ECR11.02 sIBTEDS
PIs:
Stephanie Jurburg, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ(Leipzig), Germany
Silvia Garaycochea, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agricola (INIA), Uruguay
Eva Figuerola,University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina

Following our 10th Call, sDiv has received 13 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 16 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 4 applicants for early career working groups as well as 6 applicants for SynFlex projects received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and were invited to submit a full proposal.

After intensive discussions of the internal and external reviews of proposals of very high scientific quality, the sDiv Evaluation Board has decided to support 1 early career working groups, 4 SynFlex projects. 1 ECR Project has to resubmit is proposal – the decision will be made mid of November 2022.

Congratulations to our new sDiv working groups and future sDiv collaborators!

Funded early career working groups

sMoste – Motifs supporting STability of Ecosystem services
main PIs:
Kate Wootton, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Anshuman Swain, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Funded SynFlex projects

sGUBIK – Synthesizing Global Urban Biological Invasion Knowledge (sGUBIK): Patterns, Mechanisms, and Applications
main PIs:
Luke Potgieter, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Canada
Daijiang Li, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

sUnderfoot – Functional diversity of belowground plant strategies in a rapidly changing world
main PIs:
Joana Bergmann, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Alessandra Fidelis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil

sCaleGrassDiv – Do the mechanisms of land-use effects on grassland plant diversity depend on spatial scales and environmental contexts?
main PIs:
Anna Kuzemko, Institute of Botany NAS Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Oksana Buzhdygan, Theoretical Ecology Group, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

sELOdiv – sELOdiv: Synthesising Ecosystem and Land cover Observations and biodiversity change after abandonment and depopulation
main PIs:
Gergana Daskalova, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Sylvia Dyulgerova, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria