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Professors
Junior professors

Head of Research Unit
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ecological Modeling
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.029, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816-577
Key aspects of activity
- Non-vascular vegetation
- Global biogeochemical cycles
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Palaeoclimate dynamics
Research associates

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Research associate
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ecological Modeling
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 candidate
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ecological Modeling
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.087, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Tel: +49 40 42816-579
Key aspects of activity
- Climate science
- Evolution of land plants
- Lycophytes in the Earth System
- Weathering and climate

Doctoral researcher
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Modelling of coupled soil-vegetation dynamics
- Ecosystem functioning and the carbon cycle
- Weathering processes and global climate

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Doctoral researcher
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Carbon sequestration in rewetted peatlands
- Ecophysiology of stressed plants

Doctoral Candidate
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ecological Modeling
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Key aspects of activity
- Process-based modeling of estuaries ecosystems
- Nutrient cycles
- Response of estuarine ecosystems to climate change

Doctoral researcher
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.060, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Process-based modelling of soil microbes
- Microbial functional diversity and ecosystem functions
- Carbon cycling in estuarine marshes

Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology
Ohnhorststraße 18
22609 Hamburg
Room: 2.027, Otto-Warburg-Haus
Key aspects of activity
- Dynamic global vegetation modeling
- Climate change impacts on Arctic tundra biodiversity
- Permafrost-vegetation feedback processes