We are the representatives of BSc, MSc, graduate trainees, PhD candidates, PhDs, and post-docs conducting their research at Senckenberg.
We act as an interface between students, supervisors and our administration.
Would you like to be added to our e-mail list or get more involved? Then please send us an e-mail.
Your Young Scientists Team
Every third Monday on the month at 10 am (unless specified), all Young Scientists are invited to meet via Zoom. Discussions are led by the main and local speakers, who are always looking for feedback and ideas from their fellow Young Scientists. We discuss topics from the different Senckenberg locations, from our working groups (see below), and plan our local speaker meetings and the Young Scientists retreats. Please e-mail us if you have a specific topic of interest for the meeting. We are always excited by new members, even if you just want to sit in, listen and learn what’s going on. Often a group from your location is already participating so by getting in touch with your local speaker you can just add yourself to the meeting. Monthly meetings are also a good way to learn how to get more involved. We always need help and are good at adapting to as little or as much time as you can offer.
If you are using Twitter or Instagram, you could use the #YSatSGN to be a part of our community via social media.
We organize annual Young Scientists Retreats, which started in Wilhelmshaven in 2008 and are held alternately in Frankfurt and at the other Senckenberg locations.
Our Young Scientists Retreat is a great way to network, learn more about Senckenberg, and share your research.
Every early career scientist is invited to participate and contribute to the Young Scientists. At the end of each year, we vote for people to fill the positions listed below.
The next election will be in November again. If you are interested in participating as a candidate, please write to us!
For the year 2024, the following people were elected:
Research interests
I am captivated by the dynamic nature of species interactions, with a particular interest in the effects of anthropogenic drivers on a macroecological scale. My research often focuses on temperature as both an abiotic driver of environmental change and as a physiological boundary. Within my PhD project, I aim to unravel the effects of global change on trophic networks, with a focus on the role of omnivores for food web rewiring. By compiling a large-scale database on trophic interactions of omnivores, I am able to ascertain the influence of anthropogenic global change drivers such as rising temperatures and intensifying land-use on trophic response mechanisms. This project is being funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and supervised by Dr. Jörg Albrecht.
More generally speaking, I use quantitative analysis of large data sets spanning multiple animal taxa for a wide range of topics linked to global change. Previous work has been focused on the influence of temperature on physiology and population dynamics of ectothermic animals and dated phylogenomic reconstruction.
Key-words
Trophic interactions, biodiversity, global change, thermal physiology, omnivory, macroecology, climate change
Research Interests
I am a geologist whose main interests cover sedimentary geology, exogenous processes and paleoenvironmental studies.
My PhD project is part of the second phase of a ‘Mountain Building Processes in Four Dimensions (MB-4D)’.
The project, entitled ‘Reconstructing Eastward Propagation of Surface Uplift in the Alps: Integrating Stable Isotope Paleoaltimetry and Paleoclimate Modelling (’ aims at constraining the surface uplift history of the European Alps in a paleoclimatic context. My project focuses on the Western and Eastern Alps, along with extending the record for the Central Alps to pre-Miocene times. The research focuses on stable isotope-based paleoelevation and paleoclimate reconstructions (ẟ18O, ẟD, D47-D48). The obtained ẟ-ẟ paleoaltimetry and clumped isotope-derived paleotemperature records are coupled with an isotope tracking atmospheric General Circulation Model (GCM) performed by colleagues from the ‘Earth System Dynamics Group’ at the University of Tübingen.
Education
04.2021 – Present : PhD student at Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2017 – 2020 : M.Sc. in Earth Sciences, Freiburg University, Germany
2014 – 2016 : B.Sc. in Earth Sciences, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne, France
Professional Experience
11.2020 – 03.2021 : Laboratory technician for research in hydrogeochemistry, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon (LGL), Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne, France
12.2018 – 07.2020 : Research assistant (HiWi), Sedimentary Geology and Quaternary Research Department, Freiburg University, Germany
Research interests
I am captivated by the dynamic nature of species interactions, with a particular interest in the effects of anthropogenic drivers on a macroecological scale. My research often focuses on temperature as both an abiotic driver of environmental change and as a physiological boundary. Within my PhD project, I aim to unravel the effects of global change on trophic networks, with a focus on the role of omnivores for food web rewiring. By compiling a large-scale database on trophic interactions of omnivores, I am able to ascertain the influence of anthropogenic global change drivers such as rising temperatures and intensifying land-use on trophic response mechanisms. This project is being funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and supervised by Dr. Jörg Albrecht.
More generally speaking, I use quantitative analysis of large data sets spanning multiple animal taxa for a wide range of topics linked to global change. Previous work has been focused on the influence of temperature on physiology and population dynamics of ectothermic animals and dated phylogenomic reconstruction.
Key-words
Trophic interactions, biodiversity, global change, thermal physiology, omnivory, macroecology, climate change
I am enrolled as a PhD student at the DZMB Hamburg, and part of the IceDivA project (Icelandic Marine Animals meets Diversity along latitudinal gradients in the deep sea of the Atlantic Ocean) led by Dr. Saskia Brix who is a specialist in epifaunal communities of the deep sea, with special focus on isopods. In my studies, I am aiming to understand and resolve patterns of distribution, connectivity, and population dynamics of various invertebrate taxa (Cirripedia, Isopoda, Bivalvia, Polychaeta) across adjacent deep-sea basins in the North Atlantic Ocean.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandra-Moeller
Doktorandin im Projekt FishNet
seit 2022
Doktorandin im FishNet Projekt am DZMB Wilhelmshaven, Senckenberg am Meer
Schwerpunkte: Biomasse Bestimmung, sowie Nahrungsnetz und Habitat-Analysen harpacticider Copepoden im Wattenmeer Schleswig-Holstein (DE)
2019-2022
M.Sc. Biodiversität und Ökologie in Greifswald; Erasmus Semester in Lund (Schweden) im M.Sc. Aquatic Ecology
Schwerpunkte: Marine and Aquatic Ecology, Aquatic Microbiology, Ecotoxicology, Ornithology, Reproductive Biology
Titel der Masterarbeit: “Innovative methods for biomass estimation of subtidal meiobenthic copepods in the Wadden Sea (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany)”
2019
Umweltpraktikum auf der Hamburger Hallig mit Schwerpunkt Umweltbildung und Ranger-Arbeit
2015-2019
B.Sc. Biologie in Greifswald mit Vertiefung Zoologie
Schwerpunkte: Entwicklungsbiologie, Zoologische Systematik, Vegetative Physiologie, Tierische Gifte, Parasitologie
Titel der Bachelorarbeit: „Die Auswirkung des Ernährungszustands auf das vibratorische Balzverhalten und den Reproduktionserfolg von männlichen Listspinnen (Pisaura mirabilis)“
2014-2015
Freiwilliges ökologisches Jahr am Umweltstudienplatz Nordseeküste in der UmweltIJugendherberge Tönning mit Schwerpunkt Umweltbildung
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in how organisms interact with each other and their environment and what this means for people. In my research I investigate the role of species interactions in providing regulating ecosystem services like seed dispersal, pest control and habitat provision. My research is based on the southern slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and is part of the DFG-funded research unit “The role of nature for human well-being in the Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System” .
The slopes of Kilimanjaro offer a fantastic opportunity to look at how species interactions, and the services they underpin, change across a variety of ecosystems defined by altitude and land-use. I aim to build a conceptual framework that allows to quantify the role of species in the provision of ecosystem services and use it to analyse the data that I am collecting on the mountain.
Keywords
Community ecology, species interactions, biodiversity, ecosystem services, nature’s contributions to people
External links
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giovanni-Bianco
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=droRXqwAAAAJ&hl=en
