I am fascinated by the question why species and individuals are where they are, how they get there and how they manage to sustain. This is central to understanding how they will respond to changes in their abiotic and biotic environment, for example due to climate change.
In my team, we tackle research questions across several spatial and temporal scales. For example, we study drivers of broad-scale species distributions, of population dynamics as well as individual fitness, and their interplay with inter- and intraspecific interactions and life-history trade-offs. Modelling and data integration is a major part of our work, and we dedicate a lot of time to testing and improving existing methods for biodiversity modelling.
Interests
- Global change impacts on biodiversity
- Species distribution modelling, spatialy explicit population modelling
- Data analytics
- Biogeography, macroecology, movement ecology
Professional services
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Co-lead
ISIMIP sector on Terrestrial biodiversity (since 2025)
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Co-lead
GEOBON Eco-code working group on biodiversity modelling (since 2022)
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Panel member
Expert panel “Abiotic effects on biodiversity”, National Monitoring Centre Biodiversity, Germany (since 2021)
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Commission member
IUCN SSC Climate Change Specialist Group (since 2017)
