Dr. Manfred Finckh

Postdoctoral Researcher

Key aspects of activity:

• Lad 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

Dr. Rodrigo Souto-Veiga

Postdoctoral Researcher

Key activity:

• Dynamic global vegetation modeling
• Climate change impacts on Arctic tundra biodiversity
• Permafrost-vegetation feedback processes

Dr. Mikita Maslouski

Doctoral Researcher

Key aspects of activity:

• Modelling of coupled soil-vegetation dynamics
• Ecosystem functioning and the carbon cycle
• Weathering processes and global climate

Dr. Panunporn Tutiyasarn

Doctoral Researcher

Key aspects of activity:

• Blue carbon ecosystems
• Ocean alkalinity and CO2 reduction
• Biotic effects on mineral dissolution in marsh soils

Dr. Youssef Saadaoui

Doctoral Researcher

Key aspects of activity:

• Process-based modelling of estuaries ecosystems
• Nutrient cycles
• Response of estuarine ecosystems to climate change

 Dr. Yunyao Ma

Doctoral Researcher

Key aspects of activity:

• Process-based modelling of non-vascular vegetation
• Global patterns of biodiversity
• Reaction of non-vascular vegetation on climate change

Now at: University of Copenhagen

MSc. Imke Petersen

Doctoral Researcher

Key aspects of activity:

• Physiology of non-vascular vegetation
• Nutrient cycles
• Feedback-mechanisms between climate and non-vascular vegetation

Now at: KLS Gewässerschutz, Hamburg