Understanding biodiversity in a changing world
I explore how species and communities respond to environmental change across spatial and temporal scales — from individual fitness to global distribution patterns. My research integrates principles from theoretical ecology and conservation with advanced statistical and mechanistic modelling to understand why species are where they are, how they got there, and how they will persist in the future.
In my group, we develop and test cutting-edge biodiversity models by integrating ecological theory, conservation perspectives, and large-scale data with scenarios of global change. By building on a broad set of methodologies, we aim to enhance our mechanistic understanding of biodiversity processes and improve the predictability of species distributions and community dynamics in a changing world.
Interests
- Biodiversity responses to climate and land-use change
- Species distribution modelling & spatially explicit population modelling
- Ecological forecasting & scenario-based biodiversity projections
- Macroecology, biogeography & 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)
