Biography

I received my PhD in 2019 from the Technical University of Munich (‚summa cum laude‘). My main research interest is evidence-based biodiversity conservation. Key research question is: How does climate change and anthropogenic influences affect biodiversity? Although it seems like the answers are quit obvious, developping a mechanistic understanding to explain observed pattern is challanging. The general direction is „from pattern to processes“. To understand assembly processes I use trait-based and phylogenetic approaches together with survey studies and experiments on various spatial scales. My favorit taxonomic groups are mushroom-forming fungi, however, I prefer cross-taxonomic studies from the same habitat to campture the whole community.