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Professors
Retired professors / with emeritus status
Head of Research Unit
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.508, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 260
Key aspects of activity
- General Biodiversity Research and Ecology
- Monitoring: Measurement of biodiversity change on observatory sites
- Animal-plant interactions: Social insects as ecosystem engineers
- Evolution of plants and animal plant systems in adaptation to arid areas
- Geographical focus: Tropical ecology, especially African dry areas and savannahs
- Director Herbarium Hamburgense
Research associates
Doctoral student, third-party funds
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.538, Carl-von-Linné-Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 691
Key aspects of activity
- Biodiversiy of Drylands
- Sustainable Resourcemanagement
- Soil-Vegetation Relationships
- Wadi Vegetation
- Rangeland Ecology
Doctoral student, third-party funds
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.518, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 674
Key aspects of activity
- Pollinator ecology in arid environments: Bee-plant diversity, population dynamic, bee-plant interactions
- Effects of drought and livestock grazing on bee-plant systems
- Insect pollination and seed set of Acacia trees in Tunisia
- Rangeland ecology and land use systems in North Africa
- Savannah ecosystems North Africa
Research associate
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.526, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 549
Key aspects of activity
- Land use change in the Miombo region
- Biodiversity monitoring (Morocco, Angola)
- Vegetation mapping
- Frost and fire in the Angolan highlands
- Ecology and evolution of weird life forms
Doctoral student
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.524, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816-408
Key aspects of activity
- Vascular plant diversity, ecology and biogeographic patterns along the subcontinental gradient from South Africa to Angola;
- Vegetation assessments and ecological surveys in Angola;
- Functional traits and environmental drivers on plant taxa diversity and composition in southern Africa ecosystems;
- Effect of fire seasonality and fire exclusion on key plant groups behavior and interactions in Angolan highlands.
Photo: UHH/Kober
Doctoral student, third-party funds
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.538, Carl-von-Linné-Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 692
Key aspects of activity
- Functional traits, ecophysiology and diversity of geoxylic suffrutices on the Angolan Plateau
Doctoral student
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 3.515, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 807
Key aspects of activity
- Evolution and populationgenetic of the sandtermite Psammotermes allocerus and fairy circles
- Phylogeny and phylogeography of ecosystem engineering termite species in southern Africa
Project management, coordination and administration
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.515, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 409
Key aspects of activity
- Management, coordination and administration of third-party funds in the public and private sector
- Coordinator of the international research projects BIOTA Southern Africa, The Future Okavango and SASSCAL, funded by the Federal German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Doctoral student, third-party funds
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.513, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 673
Key aspects of activity
- The underground forests of Africa
- Vascular plant diversity and ecology of the Miombo region
- Phylogenetic and genotyping approaches to study evolutionary history and population genetics
- Assessment of topographic effect on vegetation structure using microclimatic measurements, ecological surveys and aerial imagery
- Effect of fire seasonality on vegetation structure and plant species composition in savanna ecosystems
- Bird diversity and ecology of southern Africa
Project-specific data management
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.533, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 395
Assistant Professor
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.531, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 407
Key aspects of activity
- Applied Biodiversity Research
- Ecological Remote Sensing
- Hyperspectral Data Analysis
- Spatial Pattern Analysis
- Vegetation databases
- Drylands and high mountain ecosystems
Research associate / P.R.I.M.E. DAAD
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.538, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 691
Key aspects of activity
- Ethnobotany
- Incipient domestication of plants
- Plant resource management
- Population genetics
Doctoral student, third-party funds
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 3.507, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 711
Key aspects of activity
- Morphological studies on representatives of Aizoaceae (ice plant family)
- Molecular phylogeny of selected genera of the Aizoaceae
- Biogeography of various genera of the Aizoaceae in South Africa
- Ecology of quartz fields in South Africa with a focus on the Little Karoo and the Overberg area
Research associate
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.517, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 548
Key aspects of activity
- Ecological long-term monitoring in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa
- Drivers of biodiversity in space and time
- Plant functional traits in the Succulent Karoo of South Africa
- Phylogeny and population genetics oft he southern African quartz field flora
- Participatory biodiversity research with paraecologists
Doctoral student, third-party funds
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.525, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 678
Key aspects of activity
- Vegetation mapping in western Zambia
- Biodiversity patterns and their environmental drivers
- Estimation of above-ground biomass in the Miombo Woodlands of Zambia
- Influence of land use on vegetation in western Zambia
- Overview of forest management in southern Africa
Technical, administrative and library staff
Photo: UHH/Kober
Technical assistant
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 3.512, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 262
Email: karen.dehn"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Project-specific data management
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.534, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816-684
Coordinator
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.507, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 259
Photo: UHH/Kober
Technical assistant
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 3.511, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 726
Email: btfa002"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Technical assistant
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 3.512, Carl von Linné Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816- 588