People
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Professors
Retired professors / with emeritus status
![Prof. Dr. Norbert Jürgens](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061822/norbertjuergens-4328c05d5d1ca2dfab8894c2c27e3eab3964712a.jpg)
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
![mabutaha](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061645/mabutaha-50cc5350eb31ec8b750c870b7f5548a1fb999270.jpg)
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
![hayfechamkhi](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061005/hayfechamkhi-07895ffe2bbae0e35ff73932c834cb55daabd71b.jpg)
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
![Manfred Finckh](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061745/finckhmanfred-6b0cfd2a2799e87c652a8b639b300009af58305f.jpg)
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
![raquelfrazao](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/29000260/raquelfrazao-e84cfc2995fe82d875095f0c9c5dfadaf725f15b.jpg)
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.
![Leer](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/14576500/ma-dummy-weiss-180x240-95cd7efcc02259b8705dd6b3dc335a75d835fe59.jpg)
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
![Felicitas Gunter](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10060847/felicitasgunter-f80e7b8375af07a369d047f499cebf7b4f1a85e9.jpg)
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
![Ingo Homburg](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061158/ingohomburg-b05151ca766fb6998025d0af634fcd2732b47364.jpg)
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)
![pmeller](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061930/pmeller-c6d07d5301ad5d6adc8e31c3e1e10ccb065ff684.jpg)
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
![Jens Oldeland](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061310/jensoldeland-7069f772adb04a5dfd445d882d4a729617f4d80a.jpg)
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
![dianaquiroz180x240](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10234222/dianaquiroz180x240-2a5be3ba19fff6e505439fa7abdc0eb587b23fae.jpg)
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
![Sabrina Schmidt](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10062127/sabrinaschmidt-f9781717330a85e8ba8b658187af40104832b9f8.jpg)
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
![Ute Schmiedel](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10062440/schmiedelute-fca35bdf5ffec056d041a36b25662492666e820f.jpg)
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
![Leer](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/14576500/ma-dummy-weiss-180x240-95cd7efcc02259b8705dd6b3dc335a75d835fe59.jpg)
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
![Katrin Josenhans](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061415/josenhanskatrin-74229fb559cd2b281dce6eedfcb8774e63c593f9.jpg)
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
![Leer](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/14576500/ma-dummy-weiss-180x240-95cd7efcc02259b8705dd6b3dc335a75d835fe59.jpg)
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
![Imke Oncken](https://assets.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/instance_assets/fakmin/10061189/imkeoncken-2f6da07c3be8120d4223e8f974ce4821a13b7030.jpg)
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