Prof. Dr. Aletta Bonn
Ecologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Change
- Biodiversity and Health
- Citizen Science (strategy and conceptual development, several citizen science projects)
- Science-society-policy interface
- Head of Department Ecosystem Services at UFZ and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Professor of Ecosystem Services at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Lead author of IPBES and several ecosystem service assessments; Member of DFG German Committee for Sustainability Research (DKN/Future Earth); Member of Scientific Advisory Board Thünen Institute; Associate Editor of ‚People and Nature‘
Dr. Susanne Dunker
Biologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Automated phytoplankton analysis as part of water quality assessment
- Automated bioaerosol (e.g. pollen, fungal spores) and particulate matter analysis as part of air quality assessment
- Pollen (Allergies and Pollination) as important part of plant-pollinator interactions
- o Connection between pollen, particulate matter and the appearance of allergies
- o Innovative, quick and exact methods to determine cell concentration
- Working group leader and scientist at the Department for Physiological Diversity at the UFZ Leipzig and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Elisabeth Kühn
Biologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Butteflies: Species, developement, distribution, endangering
- Influence of landuse and climate change on butterflies
- Butterfly Monitoring Germany: Coordination of the citizen-science project
- Citizen Science: experience in setting up and running a Citizen Science project
- The value of Citizen Science data for science
- Scientist at the Department for Conversation Biology at the UFZ in Halle
Dr. Mark Frenzel
Animal ecologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Long term ecosystem research and monitoring of insects and birds in agricultural dominated landscapes
- Pollinator monitoring
- Data management, FAIR Data
- Scientist at the Department Community Ecology at the UFZ Halle
Dr. Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth
Biologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Population ecology of vertebrates
- Herpetology
- national and international nature and species conservation
- effects of climate change on vertebrates
- Statistics, programming, and modelling
- Detection dogs for species monitoring
- PostDoc Scientist at the department of conversation biology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Working Group head WG Conservation oriented Population Ecology (COPE)
Prof. Dr. William Stanley Harpole
Botanist
languages
de, eng
Contact
- Influence of the characteristics of different species on interdependences between the species
- Developing, testing and applying biodiversity theory to understand the effects of global change on plant communities
- Ecosystem, theoretical and community ecology
- Ecological stoichiometry, niche theory and mechanisms of coexistence
- Head of the Department of Physiological Diversity at the UFZ Leipzig and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
- Professor for Physiological Diversity at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Vogel
Agricultural scientist
languages
de, en
- Impact of agricultural soil management on soil functions
- Water and solute transport in soil
- Soil structure/function relations
- Modelling soil processes
- Non-invasive imaging and quantification of soil structure including temporal dynamics
- Head of Department Soil System Science at the UFZ Halle
- Professor of „Soil Physics“ at Martin-Luther University Halle
- Leader of the BonaRes Centre for Soil Research
Dr. Stefan Klotz
Ecologist
languages
de, en, ru
Contact
- biological invasions, biogeography
- Effects of climate change and land-use on the biodiversity and the dynamics of ecosystems
- Anthropogenic vegetation changes
- Invasive species
- Concepts of nature conservation
- Until 7/2022 Head of Research Unit „Ecosystems of the Future“ and Head of Department of Community Ecology; now retired
- Board Member of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)
- Board member, International Association for Ecology (INTECOL)
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn
Plant ecologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Impacts of climate change and global change on the immigration and spread of alien plant species
- Plant invasions and their effects on biodiversity
- Analysis of land use patterns, environmental parameters on the distribution of plant species on a macro-ecological scale
- Biological and ecological characteristics of invasive plants
- Patterns and processes of plant diversity in urban areas
- Vegetation Development of Alpine glacier forefields
- Curator of the "Database of Biological and Ecological Traits of the Flora of Germany (BiolFlor)"
- Since 7/2022 Head of the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ Halle
- Head of the Macroecology group at the UFZ Halle
- Professor for Macroecology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Dr. Ralf Seppelt
Landscape Ecologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Land Resource Management utilizing integrated simulation models
- Global analysis of biodiversity and landuse
- Effects of landuse on global agricultural markets
- Coordination of international research projects
- Since 7/2022 Head of the Research Unit "Ecosystems of the Future"
- Head of the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology at the UFZ Leipzig
- Professor for Applied Landscape Ecology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
- Spokesperson of the Helmholtz Research School ESCALATE (Ecosystem Services Under Changing Land-Use and Climate)
Dr. Martin Schädler
Ecologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Above-belowground interactions, Rhizosphere interactions
- Litter decomposition
- Soil microflora
- Interactions in the rhizosphere
- Scientist at the Department Community Ecology at the UFZ Halle
- Scientific coordinator oft he UFZ research station Bad Lauchstädt
- Scientific coordinator oft he „Global Change Experimental Facility“ (GCEF) in Bad Lauchstädt
Prof. Dr. Josef Settele
Agricultural Biologist
languages
de, en
Contact
- Ecology of Insects in Cultural Landscapes
- Biodiversity, Land Use and Social-Ecological Systems
- Inter- and Transdisciplinary Cooperation and Projects
- Science-Society-Policy Interface
- Impacts of climate and land-use change on biodiversity
- Effects of reduced biodiversity on the resilience of ecosystems and humans (e.g. pest outbreaks, pandemics)
- Head of the Department of Conversation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems at the UFZ Halle and Leipzig
- Professor of Ecology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Coordinating Lead Author in the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC
- Coordinating Lead Author in the IPBES pollination Assessment
- Review Board of DFG (German Research Foundation) for the field of Agriculture, forest science and animal medicine: Ecology of agricultural landscapes
- Member of the environmental expert panel of the German government
Dr. Yves Zinngrebe
Political scientist