Dr. Oliver Arranz-Becker | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences | Social sciences, biodiversity on health, Quantitative methods in the social sciences | website |
Dr. Harald Auge | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology | Vegetation ecology, ecological genetics, food-web interactions | website |
Dr. Ana Bastos | Leipzig University, Land-Atmosphere Interactions | Climate variability & extremes, carbon cycle, disturbances, data-modelling integration | website |
Prof. Peter Bayer | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Applied Geology | Groundwater, geoenergy, industrial ecology | website |
Apl. Prof. Markus Bernhardt-Römermann | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Vegetation Ecology | Vegetation Ecology and ecosystem changes, forest ecosystems | website |
Prof. Aletta Bonn | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Biodiversity and People German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity and People Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Biodiversity | Biodiversity and People, participatory conservation | website |
Prof. Ulrich Brose | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Theory in Biodiversity Science Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Biodiversity | Theory in biodiversity science | website |
Prof. Helge Bruelheide | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | BD-EF, vegetation ecology | website |
Dr. Jan Bumberger | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Monitoring and Exploration Technologies | Biodiversity monitoring, sensor network, data management | website |
Dr. Simone Cesarz | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Experimental Interaction Ecology Leipzig University | Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, Experimental soil ecology, Soil functioning, Soil microbial biomass, Soil microbial respiration, Free-living soil nematodes | website |
Prof. Jonathan Chase | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity Synthesis; Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | Biodiversity synthesis | website |
Prof. Antonis Chatzinotas | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Environmental Microbiology | Experimental microbial ecology, bacteria-protists-virus interactions, metagenomics, BD-EF, coevolution | website |
Prof. Christopher Conrad | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Geoecology | Land use systems and remote sensing | website |
Prof. Holger Deising | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences | Phytopathology | website |
Prof. Joachim Denzler | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Informatics | Computer vision, machine learning, automatic monitoring for biodiversity research | website |
Prof. Peter Dietrich | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Monitoring and Exploration Technologies | System analysis and geotechnics | website |
Dr. Daniel Doktor | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Remote Sensing of Ecosystems (ROSE) | Vegetation dynamics and land-use / land-cover | website |
Dr. Susanne Dunker | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Physiological Diversity; UFZ | Image-based cytometry, plant physiology | website |
Dr. Walter Durka | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology | Plant population genetics | website |
Dr. Anne Ebeling | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena Experiment | Grassland ecosystems | website |
Prof. Nico Eisenhauer | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Experimental Interaction Ecology Leipzig University, Biology | Aboveground–belowground interactions, biodiversity–ecosystem functioning, soil ecology | website |
Prof. Hannes Feilhauer | Leipzig University, Fernerkundung in der Geo- und Ökosystemforschung | Remote sensing, spatio-temporal analyses of patterns in species distributions, functional ecosystem properties, Biodiversity and People and biodiversity | website |
Dr. Néstor Fernández | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity Conservation Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Social sciences and ecology, science policy | website |
Prof. Karin Frank | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Ecological Modelling | Ecological modelling | website |
PD Dr. Martin Freiberg | Leipzig University, Biology | Taxonomy (The Leipzig Catalogue of Vascular Plants) | website |
Prof. Claudia Fricke | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Animal Ecology | Animal Ecology | website |
Prof. Immo Fritsche | Leipzig University, Sozialpsychologie | Psychology, social-psychology, environmental psychology | website |
Prof. Christine Fürst | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Sustainable Landscape Development | Adaptive management in social-ecological systems, transdisciplinary research, sustainable regional development, modeling social ecological systems | website |
Dr. Michael Gerth | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg; Symbiont Evolution | Arthropod symbiosis, molecular ecology, genomics, experimental evolution | website |
Prof. Bruno Glaser | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Soil Biogeochemistry | Soil biogeochemistry, soil processes, palae-oecology, global change, stable isotopes | website |
Prof. Gerd Gleixner | MPI BGC, Biogeochemical Processes | Molecular biogeochemistry | website |
Prof. Volker Grimm | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Ecological System Analysis | Strategies for model development and communication, concepts in ecology (resilience, stability), Agent-based/individual-based modelling | website |
Prof. Ivo Große | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Informatics | Bioinformatics | website |
Prof. Bernd Hansjürgens | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Economics | Environmental and resource economics | website |
Prof. Bill Hansson | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI CE), Evolutionary Neuroethology | Insect olfactation | website |
Prof. Hauke Harms | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Environmental Microbiology Leipzig University, Biochemistry | Environmental aquatic microbiology | website |
Prof. Stan Harpole | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Physiological Diversity Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Physiological Diversity Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Physiological Diversity | Community ecology, biodiversity theory, experimental ecology | website |
Prof. Daniel Haun | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA), Leipzig University, Comparative Cultural Psychology | Development psychology, spatial and social cognition in apes and children | website |
Prof. Andreas Hejnol | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Zoology and Evolutionary Research; Phyletic Museum | Developmental biology, animal developmental diversity | website |
Prof. Frank Hellwig | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ecology and Evolution | Systematics and evolutionary biology of plants | website |
Prof. Isabell Hensen | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | Plant population genetics , conservation of endangered grassland species, garden/greenhouse experiments, biological invasions, (sub)tropical treelines, restoration ecology | website |
Dr. Martina Herrmann | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Biodiversity | Microbial ecology of the nitrogen cycle, groundwater microbiology, aquatic geomicrobiology | website |
Prof. Anke Hildebrandt | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Geosciences Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems | Vegetation dynamics in semiarid climates, Ecohydrology: root water uptake, canopy water fluxes, inverse modelling of soil water fluxes | website |
Dr. Jes Hines | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Experimental Interaction Ecology; UL | Food web dynamics, ecosystem processes, sustainability | website |
Prof. Andreas Huth | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Ecological Modelling | Vegetation ecology, ecological modelling and theory, dynamics of forests and grasslands, carbon balances, biodiversity, disturbances, remote sensing | website |
Dr. Ute Jandt | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | German Vegetation Reference Database (GVRD), vegetation science | website |
Prof. Martin Kaltenpoth | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI CE), Insect Symbiosis | Insect symbiosis, molecular interaction | website |
Dr. Jens Kattge | MPI BGC, Biogeochemical Processes | Biogeochemistry, plant traits | website |
Dr. Sonja Knapp | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology | Urban ecology, functional ecology, phylogenetic and macro-ecology | website |
Prof. Tiffany Marie Knight | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Species Interaction Ecology German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Species Interaction Ecology Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | Invasion biology | website |
Prof. Birgitta König-Ries | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Informatics | Data Management, data integration, linked data, semantic web | website |
Prof. Franziska Krajinski-Barth | Leipzig University, Biology | Molecular physiology of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, plant mineral nutrition, rhizosphere interactions | website |
Prof. Ingolf Kühn | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | Biological Invasions, functional (trait based) ecology, analyses of long-term data, glacier forefield monitoring, spatial statistics | website |
Prof. Kirsten Küsel | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Biodiversity | Aquatic geomicrobiology | website |
Prof. Sascha Laubinger | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, General Genetics | Adaptation, Gene Regulation, Molecular Biology, Plant Genetics | website |
Dr. Marcus Lehnert | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Herbarium | Geobotany, systematics, taxonomy, botanical garden, herbarium | website |
Prof. Katja Liebal | Leipzig University, Primate Cognition | Human biology, primate cognition, | website |
Prof. Patrick Mäder | TU Ilmenau, Data-intensive Systems and Visualization | Machine learning, Computational Biology, Software engineering, Safety engineering | website |
Prof. Miguel Mahecha | Leipzig University, Remote Sensing Center | Environmental data analysis, ecological model-evaluation | website |
Prof. Manja Marz | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Informatics | Bioinformtics of RNA-Seq, ncRNAs, viruses | website |
Dr. Martin Mascher | Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Domestication Genomics | Plant genomics, domestication, bioinformatics | website |
Prof. Richard McElreath | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA), Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture | Anthropology | website |
Dr. Carsten Meyer | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig University, Macroecology and Society | Macroecology, land change science, global change biology, biodiversity data | website |
Prof. Beate Michalzik | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Geography | Soil science, terrestrial ecosystem research, effects of ecosystem disturbances (e.g. droughts, fires) and forest management on soil biogeochemistry | website |
Prof. Maria Mittag | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Molecular Botany | Photosynthetic protists (mainly microalgae) | website |
Prof. Alexandra Muellner-Riehl | Leipzig University, Biology | Plant phylogenetics, systematics, taxonomy, biogeography | website |
PD Dr. Hendrik Müller | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Collections (ZNS) | Evolution of development in amphibians, morphology, amphibian taxonomy | website |
Prof. Dr. Birgit Müller | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Ecological Modelling | Socio-environment systems, agent-based modelling, human behavior, land use | website |
Dr. Steffen Neumann | Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Synergy Research Groups | Metabolomics, computational mass spectrometry | website |
Dr. Omer Nevo | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Evolutionary Ecology Group | Evolutionary ecology, chemical communication between plants and animals | website |
Prof. Manuela Nowotny | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Zoology and Evolutionary Research | animal physiology, neuroethology, acoustic | website |
Dr. Renske Onstein | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig University, Evolution and Adaption | Macroevolution, frugivory, functional traits, comparative methods, diversification rates | website |
Prof. Jörg Overmann | DSMZ, Microbial Ecology and Diversity Research | Microbiology | website |
Prof. Christian Papilloud | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Sociology | Sociology, sociological theorie | website |
Prof. Robert Paxton | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Zoology | Evolutionary ecology, conservation genetics,sociality, bees, pollination, insect conservation | website |
Dr. Guy Pe’er | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity and People, Economics | Animal movement, population viability, range-shifts, biodiversity monitoring | website |
Prof. Henrique Pereira | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity Conservation Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | Ecological modeling and theory | website |
Prof. Georg Pohnert | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry | Chemical ecology | website |
Prof. Anton Potapov | Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz (SMNG), Soil Zoology | Soil biodiversity, food webs, stable isotopes, ecosystem ecology, soil ecology | website |
Prof. Johannes Quaas | Leipzig University, Theoretical Meteorology | Climate research, climate change, theoretical meteorology | website |
Prof. Martin Quaas | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Biodiversity Economics Leipzig University, Economics and Management Science | Ecological economics, sustainable use of renewable natural resources | website |
Prof. Marcel Quint | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Plant Sciences | Adaptation, physiological adaptation of plants to climate change, crop physiology, molecular biology | website |
Prof. Markus Reichstein | MPI BGC, Biogeochemical Integration | Ecosystem ecology, carbon cycle, ecohydrology, climate extremes, remote sensing, machine learning | website |
Dr. Thomas Reitz | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Soil Ecology | Microbial communities | website |
Prof. Dieter Rink | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Urban and Environmental Sociology | Urban and environmental sociology, urban and regional research | website |
PD Dr. Christiane Ritz | Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz (SMNG), Botany | Plant evolutionary biology, plant systematics, population genetics, reproductive mechanisms in plants, Natural History Collections | website |
Prof. Christine Römermann | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ecology and Evolution | Plant ecology, functional ecology, vegetation ecology, phenology | website |
PD Dr. Christiane Roscher | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Physiological Diversity | Plant ecology, experimental ecology | website |
Dr. Nadja Rüger | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig University, Biodiversity Economics | Forest ecology and modeling, tree demography | website |
Prof. Reinhold Sackmann | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Sociology | Sociology, Analyse of social structures | website |
Prof. Severin Sasso | Leipzig University, Plant Physiology | Microalgae interactions, photosynthesis, stress and ecophysiology | website |
PD Dr. Martin Schädler | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology | Trophic interactions, plant-insect interactions, soil ecology, decomposition | website |
Prof. Holger Schielzeth | Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ecology and Evolution | Evolutionary and molecular ecology, quantitative and population genetics, local adaptation, behavioral ecology | website |
Senior-Prof. Martin Schlegel | Leipzig University, Biology | Biodiversity and Evolution | website |
Dr. Marion Schrumpf | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI CE), Soil Biogeochemistry | Biogeochemical cycles, soil science, ecosystem functions and services, land use, global change | website |
Dr. Oliver Schweiger | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology | Animal ecology and ecological systems across different scales | website |
Prof. Ralf Seppelt | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Computational Landscape Ecology Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Geosciences and Geography | Landscape Ecology, natural resource management & economics, global change, international assessments | website |
Prof. Josef Settele | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Community Ecology | Agro-ecology, animal ecology, insect monitoring, global change, land use and biodiversity, social-ecological systems, international assessments | website |
Prof. Ilkhom Soliev | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Environmental Sociology | Social sciences, institutions and behavior, governance, societal transformations, experiments | website |
Dr. Emily F. Solly | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems | Plant-soil interactions, biogeochemistry | website |
Prof. Peter F. Stadler | Leipzig University, Computer Science | Comparative genomics, structural biology, theory of evolution | website |
PD Dr. Mika Tarkka | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Soil Ecology Leipzig University, Biology | Plant-microbe interactions | website |
Dr. Franziska Taubert | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Ecological Modelling | Ecological modelling, grassland landscapes | website |
Prof. Andreas Thum | Leipzig University, Genetics | Anatomy and insect behaviour, Neuroscience | website |
Dr. Yuko Ulrich | Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (MPI CE), Social Behaviour | Behavioral diversity and plasticity, social behavior, disease spread, traits, social environment, epidemiology | website |
Prof. Nicole van Dam | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Molecular Interaction Ecology Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Biodiversity | Chemical ecology, molecular plant responses | website |
Prof. Michael Vohland | Leipzig University, Geography | Geoinformatics, remote sensing | website |
Prof. Martin von Bergen | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Molecular Systems Biology | Metaproteomics in biodegradation and microbial ecology | website |
Prof. Alexandra Weigelt | Leipzig University, Biology | Plant ecology, plant-plant interactions | website |
Dr. Erik Welk | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Biology | Chorology Database Halle (CDH), biogeography | website |
Prof. Karsten Wesche | Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz (SMNG), Botany | Natural History Collections – especially herbaria, flora of Central Europe, steppe vegetation, grazing ecology, conservation biology | website |
Prof. Ludger Wessjohann | Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB), Bioorganic Chemistry | Plant biochemistry | website |
Prof. Anja Widdig | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA), Primate Behavioural Ecology Leipzig University, Biology | Behavioural and genetic diversity, chemical ecology, primate ecology and conservation | website |
PD Dr. Thorsten Wiegand | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Ecological Modelling | Spatially explicit individual-based models, spatial point-pattern analysis, inverse model parameterization and pattern-oriented modeling | website |
Dr. Claudia Wiesner | Leipzig University, Analytical Chemistry | mass spectrometry, metabolomics, metabolite identification, secondary metabolites | website |
Senior-Prof. Christian Wilhelm | Leipzig University, Biology | Algal physiology | website |
Dr. Marten Winter | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig University, sDiv | Macroecology, Biological Invasions, Mammal Ecology, Biodiversity Change, Functional/Phylogenetic diversity, Biodiversity conservation | website |
Prof. Christian Wirth | Leipzig University, Biology | Forest ecology, trait-based ecology, biodiversity-ecosystem functioning, carbon cycling, fire ecology, canopy research, biodiversity informatics | website |
Dr. Tesfaye Wubet | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Soil Ecology Leipzig University, Biology | Microbial ecology, metagenomics, bioinformatics | website |
Prof. Jörg Zabel | Leipzig University, Biology | Biology education, evolution teaching, design and evaluation of learning environments | website |
Prof. Sönke Zaehle | MPI BGC, Biogeochemical signals | Biogeochemical cycling, biosphere-climate interactions, nutrient dynamics, terrestrial biosphere modelling | website |