Leitung
Prof. Dr. Christine Römermann
Leitung Senckenberg Institut für Pflanzenvielfalt (SIP) Jena und Professur für Biodiversität der Pflanzen am Institut für Ökologie und Evolution der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Otto-Renner-Villa, Raum 103A
Philosophenweg 16
07743 Jena
Herbarium Haussknecht
Kristin Victor
Sammlungskoordinatorin
Doreen Brückner, SGN
Dr. Sebastian Gebauer
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Funktionelle Ökologie und Kurator Gefäßpflanzen
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Systematik, Taxonomie & Evolution grasartiger Monokotyledonen (z. B. Cyperaceae, Juncaceae, Poaceae) mit Schwerpunkt der Gattung Carex L., einschließlich evolutionärer, bioegographischer und funktioneller Fragestellungen (z.B. Makroevolution, Diversifikation, Nischen- & Merkmalsevolution, Areal- & Biomevolution, Merkmalsplastizität). Sammlungsbasierte Forschung, wie Molekulare Phylogenetik, DNA-Barcoding, Integrative Taxonomie, einschließlich Anwendung & Entwicklung nachhaltiger Methoden der halbautomatischen Merkmalsextraktion von Herbarbelegen (z. B. REM, Digitalmikroskopie, Digitalisierungsverfahren). Arktis, Hochgebirge der Nordhemisphäre, Zentralasien, Neotropis. Zudem interessiere ich mich für Glazialgeschichte, Ethnobotanik & Floristik in Deutschland.
Since 03/2025
Scientist & Curator, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN), Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function & Herbarium Haussknecht (JE) at Friedrich Schiller University (SIP), Jena, Germany [Tenure track position].
05/2018 – 02/2025
Research associate (Postdoc/Assistant Professor, since 20 February 2019), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Systematics and Biodiversity, Herbarium, Halle (Saale), Germany.
04/2017 – 04/2018
Research assistant / PhD student, with Graduate fellowship of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Halle (Saale), Germany.
04/2014 – 12/2017
Research assistant / PhD student, ibid. DFG project “Taxon recruitment and evolution of the Arctic flora – the synthesis” (HO2213/3-2).
06/2011 – 12/2013
Research assistant (graduate), ibid. DFG project “Taxon recruitment and evolution of the Arctic flora” (HO2213/3-1).
01/2011 – 03/2011
Research assistant (undergraduate), ibid., Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Chorology group (Prof. Dr. Helge Bruelheide, Dr. Erik Welk).
University studies & education
04/2014 – 02/2019
PhD thesis, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Halle (Saale), Germany. PhD thesis: “Systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of species-rich groups of the genus Carex (Cyperaceae)”. Supervisors: PD Dr. Matthias H. Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Röser. Graduation: “magna cum laude”.
10/2011 – 02/2014
Studies in Biology (MSc), ibid. Graduation: “magna cum laude”. Majors and minors in Plant systematics, Conservation biology. MSc thesis: “Systematik und Evolution von Carex sect. Racemosae G. Don (Cyperaceae)”. Supervisors: PD Dr. Matthias H. Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Röser.
04/2013 – 07/2013
During MSc studies, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Systematic Botany (Prof. Dr. Frank Hellwig), Jena, Germany. Visiting courses and lectures in Plant sociology, Agricultural biology (within the Middle German Network of Universities).
10/2008 – 09/2011
Studies in Biology (BSc), Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany. Graduation: “cum laude”. Majors and minors in Plant systematics, General zoology. BSc thesis: “Phylogenie von Carex sect. Vesicariae (Cyperaceae)”. Supervisors: PD Dr. Matthias H. Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Röser.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Morales-Alonso, A., Gebauer, S., […], & Jiménez- Mejías, P. (2024). Fieldwork, herbarium revisions, and DNA barcodes: Basic ingredients to shed light on the dark realm of plant biodiversity, an example with two enigmatic Andean Carex (Cyperaceae) species. Systematic Botany 49: 209–226. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364424X17110456120776.
Hoffmann, M.H., Gebauer, S., & Lühmann, R. (2021). Root anatomy predicts ecological optima in Carex (Cyperaceae) in terms of Ellenberg indicator values. Ecological indicators 129, 107979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107979.
Roalson, E.H., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Hipp, A.L., […], Gebauer, S., […], Wilson, K.L. & Zhang, S. (2021). A framework infrageneric classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) and its organizing principles. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12722.
Jiménez-Mejías, P., Saldivia, P., Gebauer, S. & Martín-Bravo, S. (2021). A new remarkable dwarf sedge (Carex phylloscirpoides, Cyperaceae) from Northern Chile, with insights on the evolution of austral Carex section Racemosae. Systematic Botany 46: 34–47. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364421X16128061189567.
Favre, A., Pringle, J.S., Heckenhauer, J., Kozuharova, E., Gao, Q.-B., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Sun, H., Tkach, N., Gebauer, S., Su, S.S. & Fu, P.C. (2020). Phylogenetic relationships and sectional delineation within Gentiana (Gentianaceae). Taxon 63: 342–354. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12405.
Villaverde, T., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Martín-Bravo, S., Luceño, M., Roalson, E.H., Hipp, A.E., […] Gebauer, S. […] Starr, J.R. (2020). A new classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) subgenera supported by a HybSeq backbone phylogenetic tree. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 141–163. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaa042.
Martín-Bravo S, Jiménez-Mejías P, […], Gebauer, S., […] Starr, J.R. (2019). A tale of worldwide success: Behind the scenes of Carex (Cyperaceae) biogeography and diversification. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57: 695–718. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12549.
Hoffmann, M.H., Gebauer, S. & von Rozycki, T. (2017). Assembly of the Arctic flora: Highly parallel and recurrent pattern in sedges (Carex, Cyperaceae). American Journal of Botany 104: 1334–1343. http://www.amjbot.org/content/early/2017/09/18/ajb.1700133.
Gebauer, S., Röser, M. & Hoffmann, M.H. (2015). Molecular phylogeny of the species-rich Carex sect. Racemosae (Cyperaceae) based on a combined set of four nuclear and chloroplast markers. Systematic Botany 40: 433–447. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1600/036364415X688303.
Gebauer, S., Starr, J.R. & Hoffmann, M.H. (2014). Parallel and convergent diversification in two northern hemispheric species-rich Carex lineages (Cyperaceae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 14: 247–258. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-014-0171-9.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SCSP_9EAAAAJ&hl=en
Jörn Hentschel privat
Jörn Hentschel
Kurator Kryptogamen
Bryologe mit dem Forschungsschwerpunkt auf beblätterten Lebermoosen sowie der Bryoflora
Transkaukasiens und angrenzender Gebiete. Weiterhin interessiert an Flechten, Rindenpilzen und
Libellen. Seit 2015 Kurator der Kryptogamenabteilung des Herbariums Haussknecht Jena (JE) und
verantwortlich für die Moossammlung, das Fungarium und die Algensammlung.
Curator of the Cryptogamic Division at the Herbarium Haussknecht
(JE), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
since 01.2015
Scientific assistant in the project team “Global Plant Initiative”
04.2009
–
12.2014
funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York at the
Herbarium Haussknecht (JE), Friedrich Schiller University Jena,Germany
Scientific assistant at the Herbarium Haussknecht (JE), Friedrich
Schiller University Jena, Germany
01.2009
–
03.2009
Scientific assistant at the Göttingen University Herbarium (GOET), Georg August University Göttingen, Germany 01.2009 –03.2009
Student assistant at the Herbarium Haussknecht (JE), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany 01.2002 –12.2004
Higher Education Doctorate stadium at the Georg August University Göttingen, Germany Degree: Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.), Grade: Summa cum laude 08.2005 –12.2008
Studies in Biology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena Degree: Biologist (major subject: Systematic Botany; minor subjects: Ecology, Geography), Grade: 1,1 (excellent) 09.1999 –07.2005
Studies in Medical Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Jena, Germany 09.1998 –08.1999
Dr. Jochen Müller
Kurator Phanerogamen
Bernardo Daniel Cañiza Ovelar
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Dr. Kathrin Polenz
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Digitalisierung
Sergey Pfaff
Technischer Mitarbeiter
Gabriele Reislöhner
Technische Mitarbeiterin
Andrea Todt
Technische Mitarbeiterin
Robert Pauli
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft, Herbarium Hausknecht
AG Funktionelle Biodiversität der Pflanzen
Dr. Solveig Franziska Bucher
Postdoc
Forschungsinteressen
- Phänologische und Physiologische Anpassung von Pflanzen an den Globalen Wandel
- Funktionelle Merkmale bei Pflanzen insbesondere Frostresistenz
- Veränderungen von Pflanzen entlang Höhengradienten
- Ethnobotanik
EDUCATION
10/2024 Habilitation and Venia Legendi:
Panta Rhei – Seasonal Variations in Plant Phenology, Resistance and
Performance
01/2024 – present Scientist (tenure track) at the Senckenberg Institute of Plant Form and
Function Jena (SIP), Functional Biodiversity group
10/2017 – 12/2023 Postdoc at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena / Germany, Institute of
Ecology and Evolution, Professorship of Plant Biodiversity
04/2012 – 10/2017 PhD begun at the University of Regensburg / Germany, Institute of
Botany, working group Theoretical Ecology; completed at Friedrich
Schiller University Jena / Germany, Institute of Systematic Botany,
working group Plant Biodiversity
Doctoral Thesis:
Phenological and Physiological Adaptations of Plants to Climate Change
(Magna cum laude)
09/2006 – 03/2011 University of Hohenheim / Germany, Diploma in Biology (Grade 1.0,
with Distinction)
Major Subjects:
– Botany
– Plant Interactions and Biodiversity
– Agroecology of the Tropics and Subtropics
Diploma Thesis:
The Collection of Wild Medicinal Plants in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan – A
Case Study on Its Sustainability in Consideration of the FairWild
Standard.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Kloos, S., Lüpke, M., Estrella, N., Ghada, W., Kattge, J., Bucher, S. F., Buras, A., & Menzel, A. (2024). The linkage between functional traits and drone-derived phenology of 74 Northern Hemisphere tree species. Science of The Total Environment, 952, 175753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175753
Ahmad, M., Rosbakh, S., Bucher, S.F., Sharma, P., Rathee, S., Uniyal, S., Batish, D., Singh, H. (2023). The role of floral traits in community assembly process at high elevations in Himalaya. Journal of Ecology, 111, 1107-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14083
Bucher, S.F., Uhde, L., Weigelt, A., Cesarz, S., Eisenhauer, N., Gebler, A., Kyba, C., Römermann, C., Hines, J. (2023) Artificial light at night (ALAN) decreases plant diversity and performance in experimental grassland communities. Philosophical Transactions B, 378: 20220358. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0358
Bucher, S.F., Römermann , C. (2021) The timing of leaf senescence relates to flowering phenology and functional traits in 17 herbaceous species along elevational gradients. Journal of Ecology, 109, 1537-1548.
Bucher, S.F., Rosbakh, S. (2021) Foliar summer frost resistance measured via electrolyte leakage approach as related to plant distribution, community composition and performance. Functional Ecology, 35, 590-600.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lJDsh5IAAAAJ&hl=de
Doreen Brückner, SGN
Dr. Sebastian Gebauer
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Funktionelle Ökologie und Kurator Gefäßpflanzen
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Systematik, Taxonomie & Evolution grasartiger Monokotyledonen (z. B. Cyperaceae, Juncaceae, Poaceae) mit Schwerpunkt der Gattung Carex L., einschließlich evolutionärer, bioegographischer und funktioneller Fragestellungen (z.B. Makroevolution, Diversifikation, Nischen- & Merkmalsevolution, Areal- & Biomevolution, Merkmalsplastizität). Sammlungsbasierte Forschung, wie Molekulare Phylogenetik, DNA-Barcoding, Integrative Taxonomie, einschließlich Anwendung & Entwicklung nachhaltiger Methoden der halbautomatischen Merkmalsextraktion von Herbarbelegen (z. B. REM, Digitalmikroskopie, Digitalisierungsverfahren). Arktis, Hochgebirge der Nordhemisphäre, Zentralasien, Neotropis. Zudem interessiere ich mich für Glazialgeschichte, Ethnobotanik & Floristik in Deutschland.
Since 03/2025
Scientist & Curator, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN), Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function & Herbarium Haussknecht (JE) at Friedrich Schiller University (SIP), Jena, Germany [Tenure track position].
05/2018 – 02/2025
Research associate (Postdoc/Assistant Professor, since 20 February 2019), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Systematics and Biodiversity, Herbarium, Halle (Saale), Germany.
04/2017 – 04/2018
Research assistant / PhD student, with Graduate fellowship of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Halle (Saale), Germany.
04/2014 – 12/2017
Research assistant / PhD student, ibid. DFG project “Taxon recruitment and evolution of the Arctic flora – the synthesis” (HO2213/3-2).
06/2011 – 12/2013
Research assistant (graduate), ibid. DFG project “Taxon recruitment and evolution of the Arctic flora” (HO2213/3-1).
01/2011 – 03/2011
Research assistant (undergraduate), ibid., Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Chorology group (Prof. Dr. Helge Bruelheide, Dr. Erik Welk).
University studies & education
04/2014 – 02/2019
PhD thesis, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology, Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Halle (Saale), Germany. PhD thesis: “Systematics, taxonomy and biogeography of species-rich groups of the genus Carex (Cyperaceae)”. Supervisors: PD Dr. Matthias H. Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Röser. Graduation: “magna cum laude”.
10/2011 – 02/2014
Studies in Biology (MSc), ibid. Graduation: “magna cum laude”. Majors and minors in Plant systematics, Conservation biology. MSc thesis: “Systematik und Evolution von Carex sect. Racemosae G. Don (Cyperaceae)”. Supervisors: PD Dr. Matthias H. Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Röser.
04/2013 – 07/2013
During MSc studies, Friedrich Schiller University, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Systematic Botany (Prof. Dr. Frank Hellwig), Jena, Germany. Visiting courses and lectures in Plant sociology, Agricultural biology (within the Middle German Network of Universities).
10/2008 – 09/2011
Studies in Biology (BSc), Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany. Graduation: “cum laude”. Majors and minors in Plant systematics, General zoology. BSc thesis: “Phylogenie von Carex sect. Vesicariae (Cyperaceae)”. Supervisors: PD Dr. Matthias H. Hoffmann, Prof. Dr. Martin Röser.
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Morales-Alonso, A., Gebauer, S., […], & Jiménez- Mejías, P. (2024). Fieldwork, herbarium revisions, and DNA barcodes: Basic ingredients to shed light on the dark realm of plant biodiversity, an example with two enigmatic Andean Carex (Cyperaceae) species. Systematic Botany 49: 209–226. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364424X17110456120776.
Hoffmann, M.H., Gebauer, S., & Lühmann, R. (2021). Root anatomy predicts ecological optima in Carex (Cyperaceae) in terms of Ellenberg indicator values. Ecological indicators 129, 107979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107979.
Roalson, E.H., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Hipp, A.L., […], Gebauer, S., […], Wilson, K.L. & Zhang, S. (2021). A framework infrageneric classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) and its organizing principles. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12722.
Jiménez-Mejías, P., Saldivia, P., Gebauer, S. & Martín-Bravo, S. (2021). A new remarkable dwarf sedge (Carex phylloscirpoides, Cyperaceae) from Northern Chile, with insights on the evolution of austral Carex section Racemosae. Systematic Botany 46: 34–47. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364421X16128061189567.
Favre, A., Pringle, J.S., Heckenhauer, J., Kozuharova, E., Gao, Q.-B., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Sun, H., Tkach, N., Gebauer, S., Su, S.S. & Fu, P.C. (2020). Phylogenetic relationships and sectional delineation within Gentiana (Gentianaceae). Taxon 63: 342–354. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12405.
Villaverde, T., Jiménez-Mejías, P., Martín-Bravo, S., Luceño, M., Roalson, E.H., Hipp, A.E., […] Gebauer, S. […] Starr, J.R. (2020). A new classification of Carex (Cyperaceae) subgenera supported by a HybSeq backbone phylogenetic tree. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 141–163. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boaa042.
Martín-Bravo S, Jiménez-Mejías P, […], Gebauer, S., […] Starr, J.R. (2019). A tale of worldwide success: Behind the scenes of Carex (Cyperaceae) biogeography and diversification. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 57: 695–718. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12549.
Hoffmann, M.H., Gebauer, S. & von Rozycki, T. (2017). Assembly of the Arctic flora: Highly parallel and recurrent pattern in sedges (Carex, Cyperaceae). American Journal of Botany 104: 1334–1343. http://www.amjbot.org/content/early/2017/09/18/ajb.1700133.
Gebauer, S., Röser, M. & Hoffmann, M.H. (2015). Molecular phylogeny of the species-rich Carex sect. Racemosae (Cyperaceae) based on a combined set of four nuclear and chloroplast markers. Systematic Botany 40: 433–447. http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1600/036364415X688303.
Gebauer, S., Starr, J.R. & Hoffmann, M.H. (2014). Parallel and convergent diversification in two northern hemispheric species-rich Carex lineages (Cyperaceae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 14: 247–258. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-014-0171-9.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SCSP_9EAAAAJ&hl=en
Anna Vincze
Anna Vincze
Promovierende in der AG Funktionelle Biodiversität der Pflanzen
Ich bin Botanikerin mit Forschungsinteressen an mitteleuropäischer und mongolischer Pflanzendiversität sowie an der Entwicklung neuer und innovativer Analysemethoden in Herbarien. Meine derzeitige Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die langfristigen Auswirkungen des globalen Wandels auf die Pflanzen der mongolischen Steppenökosysteme.
Projekt:
Pflanzenphänologie, -verbreitung und funktionelle Merkmale in mongolischen Weidelandschaften.
Wir untersuchen die langfristigen Auswirkungen des globalen Wandels auf Pflanzengesellschaften, Verbreitungsgebiete, Phänologie und biochemische Pflanzenmerkmale in der Mongolischen Steppe. Für unsere Forschung führen wir Feldarbeit in der Mongolei durch und nutzen Herbarien.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function, Jena, Germany
05/2024
–
Present
PhD-Student
Plant phenology, distribution and functional traits in Mongolian rangelands
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History
Görlitz, Germany
1/2022
–
02/2024
Research Assistant in the Herbarium
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Organismic and Molecular Biodiversity
International Institute Zittau – TU
Dresden
Zittau, Germany
10/2021
–
03/2024
Bachelor of Science in Biology – Botany
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
09/2017
–
06/2021
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Best degree of the International Institute Zittau
12/2024
TU-Dresden
VOLUNTEERING & LEADERSHIP
Senckenberg
01/2025
–
12/2025
Young Scientist Speaker
International Institute Zittau
03/2022
–
03/2023
Student Study Coordinator „Organismic and Molecular Biodiversity“
University of Vienna
08/2020
–
08/2021
Volunteer at the University Herbarium
Administration
Doreen Brückner
Administrative Koordinatorin
Steffi Coors
Teamassistenz
AG Integrative Taxonomie der Pflanzen
Marc Appelhans
Prof. Dr. Marc Appelhans
Professor für Integrative Taxonomie, Kooperierende Arbeitsgruppe an der FSU