Expertise in terrestrial (soil) biodiversity research, DNA metabarcoding and population ecology.
PhD student in an ongoing collaborative project (BioDivSoil) focusing on agroecology and DNA-based identification methods.

As a project team, we are interested in international collaborations for knowledge exchange and standardization of soil research. We offer a lot of experience in field work and quantitative (morphological determinations) and qualitative (barcoding) recording of different groups of organisms (vegetation, arthropods & birds), as well as detection and analysis of ecological patterns.

Agriculture
Biology of interactions
Biology of Organisms
Botanics
Conservation Biology
Ecology
Ecotoxicology
Entomology
Genomics
Landscape ecology
Plant Protection
Plant Sciences
Population Biology
Population Genetics
Zoology
Taxonomy
Urban Ecology

There is particular interest in projects focusing on the highly complex and largely unexplored soil ecosystem. No differentiation is made between above- and below-ground soil life. We strive for the spatial, temporal and methodological consolidation of above- and below-ground soil biodiversity monitoring as well as an internationally valid standardization of investigation methods.

soil biodiversity, agriculture, agroecology, entomology, nature conservation, population ecology, molecular analysis, ecotoxicology, metabarcoding

The 3rd Global Soil Biodiversity Conference, 13-15 March 2023, Dublin