Staff by Institution
Department Biology

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Photo: UHH/Bergmann
- Interactions between tree roots, mycorrhiza and nutrient cycling in temperate forests
- Mycorrhizal fungal community composition and functional diversity
- Root functional traits
- Root decomposition and exudation

Photo: UHH/Christianty

Photo: UHH/Yaffar
- Root trait tradeoffs and synergies for nutrient acquisition and water uptake in tropical moist forests
- Tree root responses to global changes (e.g. drought, hurricane, increase of CO2)
- Fine-scale ecological interactions between plant roots and mycorrhizal fungi
- Root ecology and modelling integration
- Plant physiology
- I am an ecosystem ecologist. My main interest is understanding the effects of climate change on forest functioning. Specifically, how climatic disturbances (warming, elevated CO2, drought) may affect the rhizosphere (soil-roots-microbes interaction). Most of my experience is based on tropical forests; thus, a great part of my current research and future interest is on tropical ecosystems which are underrepresented in global databases and global ecosystem models.

Photo: UHH/Hake

Photo: Jian/UHH

Photo: UHH/Khokon
- Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and taxon-specific influence on host nutrients uptake
- Mycorrhizal functions in forest floor and in mineral topsoil
- Tree diversity and tree identity influence in the root and soil-localized fungal community assemblages in temperate forests
- Eco-physiological response of ectomycorrhizal fungi under harsh environmental conditions such as drought and nutrient limitation
- Effect of the mycorrhizal association in the root economics spectrum of forest trees of different climate zones
- Root ecological modelling and data visualization

Photo: Thünen-Institut
- Effects of global change (rising atmospheric CO2 and temperature, summer droughts, N deposition, and intensified management) on the biogeochemistry and biodiversity of temperate, boreal, Mediterranean, and global biomes
- Functional ecology of forest trees and grassland communities
- Root-mycorrhizal-soil feedbacks
- Ecophysiology
- Long-term changes in forest ecosystems

Photo: UHH/Miron
- Fine roots dynamics in tropical moist forests
- Seasonality of Carbon allocation among forest compartments
- Forest litter dynamics
- Interactions between fine roots, litterfall and mycorrhizae fungi
- Minirhizotron images analysis
- Effects of droughts and hurricanes disturbances on belowground dynamics

- I am an agronomist and ecosystem ecologist. My research mainly focuses on plants functional responses (mainly the belowground) to environmental gradients using trait-based ecology approach and relate them to ecosystem services, mostly in temperate ecosystems (agroforest, forest and crop systems); Developing methods of image acquisition and phenotyping.Iam also image analysis software enthusiast.
- Current research project: I am supporting the Earth Commission’s Working Group on Biosphere Interactions (“biosphere defenders”) which aims to specify the extent and integrity of biomes and ecosystems to stay within a “safe and just corridor” for people and the planet.

Photo: UHH/Richter
- carbon cycling in estuarine alluvial forests of the Elbe River
- rhizosphere biogeochemistry
- plant-soil interactions
- microbial ecology (community composition, activity, diversity)
- surplus carbon as a driver of allocation, exudation and alternative respiration

Photo: UHH/Ritter
- Biogeochemistry: interaction between tree roots, mycorrhizal fungi, and nutrient/carbon cycling in temperate forest soils on landscape scales
- Role of root exudation, root/leaf litter decomposition, soil depth, microbial activity in bulk soil/rhizosphere, biodiversity, and forest management for those cycles
- Focus on variations between stands with differed mycorrhiza types (ECM or AM)
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annalena-Ritter
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnnalenaRitter

Photo: UHH/Russell

Photo: UHH/Stobinsky
- Functional forest tree ecology
- Tree biodiversity in forest ecosystems
- Root exudation and decomposition
- Interactions between tree roots, soil, and mycorrhizae
- The role of roots and mycorrhizae in forest C- and N-cycles
Academic Office

- in his office
- Tuesday 10-12am and 2 to 4pm
- Thursday 10-12am
- via phone:
- Wednesday and Friday 10 to 12am
- or by arrangement
- .
- temporal exceptions:
- not available from 14th until 31th May
- not available from 5th until 12th June
- for an appointment via video camara follow this link:
- https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/studium/terminbuchung.html
- Head, Study coordination for BSc. Biology, MSc. Molecular Plant Science, MSc. Biology,
- Quality Management
- STiNE Modelling
- Study counseling

- in her office:
- Tuesday 10 to 12am and 2 to 4pm
- Thursday 10 to 12am
- via phone
- Wednesday and Friday 10 to 12am
- or by arrangement
- Temporal exceptions: none
- Course and Exam Management in STiNE for all degree programmes in the Department Biology

- in his office
- Tuesday and Thursday 10-12am
- or by arrangement
- .
- temporal exceptions: none
- for an appointment via video camara follow please contact him via email
- Study coordination for Teacher Education, Minor Biology, Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries Sciences and History of Natural Sciences
- STiNE Modelling
- Study counseling
- Internationalization (Erasmus/ Freemover/ Internships)
- Quality Management

- in her office:
- Tuesday 10 to 12am and 2 to 4pm
- Thursday 10 to 12am
- via phone
- Wednesday and Friday 10 to 12am
- or by arrangement
- Temporal exceptions: temporally not available
- Course and Exam Management in STiNE for all degree programmes in the Department Biology

Photo: UHH/Kober
- in his office
- Tuesday 10-12am and 2 to 4pm
- Thursday 10-12am
- via phone:
- Wednesday and Friday 10 to 12am
- or by arrangement
- .
- temporal exceptions: not available on 23rd May and 25th May 2023
- for an appointment via video camara follow this link:
- https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/studium/terminbuchung.html
- Study coordination for Teacher Education
- Minor Biology,
- Study counseling
- Quality Management

- in her office:
- Tuesday and Thursday 10 to 12am
- via phone
- Wednesday and Friday 10 to 12am
- or by arrangement
- Temporal exceptions: none
- Course and Exam Management in STiNE for all degree programmes in the Department Biology

Photo: UHH/Kober
- via phone:
- Tuesday until Friday 10 to 12am
- Tuesday and Wednesday 2 to 4pm
- or by arrangement
- .
- temporal expceptions: none
- .
- for an appointment via video camara follow this link:
- https://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/studium/terminbuchung.html
- doctoral procedures
Libraries of the Department of Biology

- Leitung Fachbereichsbibliothek Biologie

- BZ Klein Flottbek
- Di + Mi 9 - 17 Uhr
- Fr 9 - 16 Uhr
- und
- BZ Grindel - Bibliothek
- Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
- 20146 Hamburg
- Tel: 42838 3908
- Mo 9 - 17 Uhr
- Do 9 - 16 Uhr
- Leihstelle und Auskunft, Betreuung Buchscanner, EDV-key-user, Fernleihe
- Leihstelle und Auskunft, Betreuung Bibliothek des Botanischen Gartens, Buchbinder, Tausch
- BZ Klein Flottbek
- Mo 9 - 17 Uhr
- und
- BZ Grindel - Bibliothek
- Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3
- 20146 Hamburg
- Tel: 42838 - 3908
- Di 9 - 17 Uhr
- Mi 9 - 12:30 Uhr
- stellvertr. Bibliotheksleitung, Katalogisierung

Photo: UHH/U.Hermes
- BZ Klein Flottbek
- Do 9 - 17 Uhr
- und
- BZ Grindel - Bibliothek
- Martin-Luther-King Platz 3,
- 20146 Hamburg
- Tel: 42838 - 3908
- Di + Mi + Fr 14 - 17 Uhr
- stellvertr. Leitung, Katalogisierung
Teaching and Science Service

- Kursmaterial
- Kursräume
- Lehrmittelsammlung
- Exkursionssammlung

Photo: UHH/Kober




Photo: UHH/Kober

Photo: UHH/Kober

- Mi 12.30-14.00 Uhr
- Außerhalb der Sprechstunde nur nach vorheriger Terminabsprache

Mo - Do 8:00 - 15:00
Fr 8:00 - 14:00





on appointment
- Cnidaria: Life cycle, Nematocysts, Equilibriium sense organs
- Rearing of living specimen
- Course material
- Teaching material
- Teaching material collection
- Excursion collection

Photo: UHH/Kober

Photo: UHH/Kober
- Kursmaterial
- Kursräume


Technical Service
- Ressourcen Controlling
- Human Ressources
- Technische Planungskoordination
- Reparatur wissenschaftlicher Messgeräte

- *2006

- Kurzwahl *2001

- Tischlerei


- Reparaturen, Mangelmeldung
- Schlüsselverwaltung

- *2009
Loki Schmidt Haus

- Sammlung

- Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Führungen

Herbarium Hamburgense

- Collection management of Herbarium Hamburgense
- Taxonomy, systematic and evolution of lichens
Institute of Wood Science
Wood Biology


- Pflanzen-Ernährung, Klimawandel, Stress-Physiologie, Non Wood Forest Products, Holzschutz



- Administrative work
- Accident reports
- Notifications of illness or vacation in the Institute of Wood Science
Wood Chemistry

Photo: UHH

Photo: UHH




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Photo: UHH

Photo: UHH

Photo: UHH

Wood Physics




Photo: UHH/Weitkus





World Forestry

Photo: Archana Gauli




Photo: Foto: Christina Waitkus

Photo: Universität Hamburg, Christina Waitkus

Photo: UHH

Photo: UHH


Economics

Institute of Marine Ecosystem and Fishery Science









Photo: Helena Herr

Photo: privat












- Donnerstags 10 bis 13 Uhr


Biological Oceanography




Marine Ecosystem Dynamics

Plankton Ecology







Population Dynamics
Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology








Applied Plant Ecology


- Coastal ecosytem ecology
- Spatial ecology
- Social-ecological systems
- Ecosysten services

- Soil Ecology
- Stable Isotopes
- Carbon & Nitrogen Cycles
- Black Soils

- blue carbon
- biogeochemistry
- greenhouse-gas fluxes
- stable isotopes

- The ecology of hybrids and consequences of polyploidization in plants
- Coastal wetland ecology

- Climate science
- Evolution of land plants
- Lycophytes in the Earth System
- Weathering and climate


- Seeds
- Germination

- floodplain ecology
- seed dispersal and germination
- urban ecology
- vegetation ecology

- coastal ecology
- saltmarshes
- biodiversity and carbon dynamics

- Wetland Ecology
- Ecosystem Ecology
- Global Change
- Biogeochemistry


- Ornithologie

- coastal ecology
- arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- nature conservation
- plant physiology
- salt marshes in times of climate change

- blue carbon
- microbial ecology
- biogeochemistry
- plant-soil interaction

- geobotany
- nature conservation
- plant ecology
- plant physiology

- Non-vascular vegetation
- Global biogeochemical cycles
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Palaeoclimate dynamics

- Ecophysiology
- Stress
- Stable isotopes in ecology
- Crop biology



- Soil water dynamics
- Sap flow
- Microclimate

- Wetland biogeochemistry
- Wetland ecology
- Microbial ecology

- Estuarine marshes
- Rhizosphere processes
- Organic matter degradation and carbon cycling

- saline wetlands
- carbon exchange
Aquatic Ecophysiology and Phycology

- Algensammlung

Photo: UHH/Kober




- Algensammlung

Photo: UHH/Kober
Biodiversity of Crop Plants


- Kakaoforschung


- In Vitro Kultivierung


Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology

- Biodiversiy of Drylands
- Sustainable Resourcemanagement
- Soil-Vegetation Relationships
- Wadi Vegetation
- Rangeland Ecology

- 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

Photo: UHH/Kober

- 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

- 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
- Functional traits, ecophysiology and diversity of geoxylic suffrutices on the Angolan Plateau

- Evolution and populationgenetic of the sandtermite Psammotermes allocerus and fairy circles
- Phylogeny and phylogeography of ecosystem engineering termite species in southern Africa

- 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)


- 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

Photo: UHH/Kober

- 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

- Applied Biodiversity Research
- Ecological Remote Sensing
- Hyperspectral Data Analysis
- Spatial Pattern Analysis
- Vegetation databases
- Drylands and high mountain ecosystems


- Ethnobotany
- Incipient domestication of plants
- Plant resource management
- Population genetics

- 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

- 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
- 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
Developmental Biology







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Photo: UHH/Köhler









Photo: UHH/Latos

Photo: UHH/Wang

Photo: UHH/Böwer
Microbiology and Biotechnology























- on appointment



- monday to thursday


- on appointment








Molecular Plant Genetics






Consultation hours on Mondays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., please register in advance by email.

Photo: Lakshmi/ UHH









Photo: UHH/ Anton Reza

Molecular Plant Physiology















Molecular Phytopathology
Plant Biochemistry and Infection Biology


- Mon - Thu 8:00-12:00 am, Fri 8:00-11:30 am




- Thu 1:00-2:00 pm


Systematics and Evolution of Plants

Photo: UHH/Kober

- Evolution and populationgenetic of the sandtermite Psammotermes allocerus and fairy circles
- Phylogeny and phylogeography of ecosystem engineering termite species in southern Africa
Institute of Cell and Systems Biology of Animals
Evolutionary Immunogenomics

Photo: CAzuure


Photo: UHH/Efstratiou

Photo: UNIL/A. Gaigher

- Ornithologie
- Stadtökologie

Photo: UHH/Lenz
By appointment only
- Evolution of an optimal immune response
- Dynamics of antigen prpesentation and recognition
- Evolutionary genomics of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)
- Human population genetics and genomics

Photo: J. Malukiewicz

Photo: Elfriede Liebenow

Photo: UHH/Özer


Photo: A. Sinner

Molecular Cell Biology of Animals

Photo: UHH/Blume

Photo: UHH/Selman Idris Bulut

Photo: UHH/Qinming Li

Photo: UHH/Iris Marchal

Photo: UHH/Ismail Özcan

Photo: Ortiz

Photo: UHH/Amin Shadfar

Photo: Tursun
- By appointment only
- Molecular mechanisms of cellular safeguarding
- C. elegans as a model for investigating cellular safeguarding
- Epigenetics in the context of reprogramming and aging
- Interplay of epigenetics and metabolism for cellular safeguarding
- Reverse genetics (RNAi) and molecular genomics (ATAC-Seq, ChIP-Seq)
Functional Ecology

- Ecophyisology
- Seasonal adaptations
- Lemurs

- Cardiac physiology
- Heart rate
- Biologging
- Thermal biology

- Ecology of small mammals
- Energy budgets
- Novel environments
- Hibernation and daily torpor
- Tropical ecology
- Madagascar

- Energy budgets
- Thermoregulation
- Seasonal adaptation
- Madagascar
- Bats

- Energy budgets
- Thermoregulation
- Seasonal adaptation
- Madagascar
- Bats

- Energy budgets
- Thermoregulation
- Seasonal adaptation
- Small mammal communities

- Urbanization
- Ecological adaptations
- Energy budgets
- Squirrels
History of Natural Sciences

(during the semester break by appointment)
Mon 14:00 - 15:00, Tue 11:00 - 12:00
Academic advising
(during the semester break by appointment)
Mon 15:00 - 16:00
Molecular Evolutionary Biology




Photo: Marlena Winter
- Investigations of the tissue specific expressed alpha-beta-subunit combinations of the Na,K-ATPase in Oncopeltus fasciatus (large milkweed bug) and their functional role.
- ABCB transporters of Oncopeltus fasciatus(milkweed bug)
- Functional importance and substrate specificity of different splice variants.
- • Molecular evolution of ATP1A (Na+K+ATPase) gene family
- • Adaptability of vertebrates against cardiotonic steroids (bufadienolides and cardenolides): functional analyses of the Na+K+ATPases with a focus on how intramolecular epistasis has influenced the evolution of the enzyme’s resistance to cardiotonic steroids.

Photo: Mario Röpcke
- Investigation of the ABCB FT and HT of Oncopeltus fasciatus, with focus on the Malpighian tubule system

- Molecular biological analysis of sex determitation in the flea beetle genus Altica lythri
- Adaptability of insects to toxic plant secondary compounds: functional analyses of the OATP-transporters in leaf beetles (Chrysochus spec.) with focus on the transporters' function in resistance against hostplant toxins

Photo: alina
- Analysis of reproductive anomalies in the hybridogenetic beetle Altica lythri using ddRAD markers and histological methods


Molecular Animal Physiology

Mi. 10.00 - 12.00 Uhr

Mo + Mi 10.00 - 12.00 Uhr








Neuroendocrinology

Photo: clusmann



Photo: judith keller

Neurophysiology





Animal Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental impacts on rat populations

- Wildtierbiologie
- Raubtiere
- Habitatkonnektivität
- Mensch-Raubtier Konflikt


- Vector-borne diseases
- Ectoparasites
- Madagascar
- Plant animal interactions

By appointment.
Please contact Mrs. Baumann at the secretariat.
- General Ecology, Tropical Ecology
- Lemurs, Madagascar
- Capacity Building, Sustainability

- Wildtierbiologie
- Wildtiermanagement
- Habitatwahl
- Raum-Zeit-Verhalten

- Community Ecology
- Amphibians
- Madagascar
- Natural history Madagascar
- Ornithologie
- Stadtökologie

- Wildtierbiologie
- Raubtiere
- Habitatkonnektivität
- Mensch-Raubtier Konflikt
- Programming language R
- NGS (Illumina platform)
- Population genetics
- Habitat associations of Lepilemur spp.

- Vegetation analyses
- Community based monitoring
- Insekten
- Taxonomie
- Naturschutz

- Seed dispersal
- Food plants
- Lemurs
- Madagascar
- Immunology

- Wildtierbiologie
- Tier-Pflanze Interaktion
- chemische Ökologie

- Molecular phylogeography of Madagascar
Behavioral Biology






Photo: Ortiz







Photo: Kardelen Uludag

Thünen Institute
Center for Bioinformatics






Other






on appointment
mondays, tuesdays, thursdays


on appointment
wednesdays, thursdays, fridays




- Media budget management
- Data structuring
- Licensing management
- Publication management in the research information system (FIS)
- Teaching research skills / implementation of workshops
- Editorial work for the earth system science website for literature and information supply
- Library management









Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften und Mikrobiologie

- Process-based modeling of non-vascular vegetation
- Global biodiversity patterns
- Response of non-vascular vegetation to climate change


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

- Process-based modeling of estuaries ecosystems
- Nutrient cycles
- Response of estuarine ecosystems to climate change
Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie






Organismische Botanik und Mykologie

Photo: UHH/Esfandiari
- Evolution und Ökologie von Brandpilzen
- Pflanzenassoziierte Pilzgemeinschaften

- Ökologische Langzeitbeobachtung in der Sukkulent Karoo Südafrikas
- Steuerungsfaktoren von Biodiversität in Raum und Zeit
- Funktionelle Merkmale von Pflanzen in der Sukkulenten Karoo Südafrikas
- Phylogenie und Populationsgenetik der südafrikanischen Quarzfeldflora
- Partizipative Biodiversitätsforschung mit Paraökologen
Molekulare Phytopathologie




Photo: UHH/Schmidt

Photo: UHH/Lutz

Angewandte Pflanzenökologie

- Urban ecology
- Remote sensing
Aquatische Ökophysiologie und Phykologie
