Division leader
Franz Essl
- Email: franz.essl@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Biological Invasions – Macroecology – Conservation Biology – Biodiversity Policy – Climate Change
Senior Scientist
Bernd Lenzner
- Email: bernd.lenzner@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Plant Invasion – Island biogeography – Biodiversity Policy – Biodiversity Scenarios – Time Lags
Postdocs
Adrián García-Rodríguez
- Email: adrian.garcia@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Macroecology – Evolution – Amphibians – Spatial Analyses – Global Change
Michael Glaser
- Email: michael.glaser@univie.ac.at
- Interests:Agroecology – Weeds – Arable Biodiversity
- Thesis:Past, present and future weeds.
Daijun Liu
- Email: daijun.liu@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Experimental Ecology – Biodiversity – Functional Traits – Biological Invasions – Ecosystem functions
Fabio Mologni
- Email: fabio.mologni@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Biological Invasions – Island biogeography – Human biogeography – Functional traits – Macroecology
Ali Omer
- Email: ali.haroon.ali.omer@univie.ac.at
- Interests:Macroecology – Vascular Plant Invasions – Plant Characteristics – Plant Distribution
Lisa Tedeschi
- Email: lisa.tedeschi@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Alien Mammals – Macroecology – Drivers of Global Change – Conservation Biology – Protected Areas
Postdoctoral Fellow
Shuya Fan
- Email: sy.fanmily@gmail.com
- Webpage:
- Interests:Macroecology – Plant Invasions – Phylogenetic Relatedness – Climate Change
PhD students
Anna Schertler
- Email: anna.schertler@univie.ac.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Biogeography – Macroecology – Conservation Biology – Wildlife Ecology – Fungal invasions
- Thesis:Macroecological perspectives in invasion biology – drivers of plant and fungal invasion patterns.
Ekin Kaplan
- Email: ekin.kaplan@univie.ac.at
- Twitter: @ekinkaplan93
- Interests:Macroecology – Invasion biology – Conservation – Plant Biodiversity
- Thesis:Assessing the trajectories of local plant community change
Tom Vorstenbosch
- Email: tom.vorstenbosch@univie.ac.at
- Interests:Polar Invasions – Macroecology – Plant Biodiversity – Island Biogeography – Climate Change
- Thesis:Modelling future biological invasions in the sub-Antarctic under climate change.
Gilles Colling
- Email: gilles.colling051@gmail.com
- Interests:Biological Invasions – Spatio-Temporal Spread – Macroecology
- Thesis:Alien Species Accumulation Across Scales.
Ana Isabel Martinez-Richart
- Email: ana-isabel.martinez-richart@bfw.gv.at
- Interests:Ecological connectivity – Forest Biodiversity – Conservation biology
- Thesis:Landscape connectivity in forests. A multi-taxa case study on stepping stones between the Dürrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area, and the Kalkalpen and Gesäuse National Parks, Austria.
Tobias Schernhammer
- Email: tobias.schernhammer@univie.ac.at
- Thesis:…starting in September 2023
Jennifer Hennenfeind
- Email: jennifer.hennenfeind@univie.ac.at
- Interests:Human-nature interactions – Macroecology – Global Change
- Thesis:How biodiversity and climate change influence human conflicts
Cornelia Amon
- Email: cornelia.amon@bfw.gv.at
- Interests:Vegetation Ecology – Forest Connectivity – Conservation Biology – Climate Change
- Thesis:Determinants of understory alpha diversity and interrelations between tree alpha diversity and carbon stock depending on stand structural characteristics in unmanaged forests of Austria
Emma Shih Mendez
- Email: emma.shih.mendez@univie.ac.at
- Interests:Vegetation Ecology – Biodiversity – Climate change
- Thesis:Analysing vegetation changes in Europe with resurvey studies
Ruiling Liu
- Email: ruilingliu620@gmail.com
- Interests:Biological Invasions – Phenology – Community dynamics – Macroecology – Ecological Interactions
- Thesis:The impact of phenology on the community dynamics of invasive plants in mountainous regions
Research assistant
Julia Fugger
- Email: julia.fugger@univie.ac.at
- Interests:Climate Change – Conservation Policy – Biological Invasions – Sustainable Development Goals
Former team members
Janine Oettel
- Email: Janine.oettel@bfw.gv.at
- Webpage:
- Interests:Forest Biodiversity – Forest management – Deadwood – Saproxylic Insects – Habitat Trees
- Thesis:Deadwood characteristics, its dynamics, and feeding traces of saproxylic insects in the context of forest management and conservation.
Visiting researcher
Gabriel Petuel [February-March 2024]
- Email: gabriel.petuel@entu.cas.cz
- Interests:Alien and Invasive plants – Biodiversity – Plant Ecology – Conservation Biology
- Thesis:The role of alien plant species in tropical rainforest succession in Papua New Guinea.
Intern
David Umhauer [April-June 2024]
- Email: david.umhauer@kaufrob.de
- Interests:Biodiversity conservation
