Dr. Maria Langhammer
Contact
Dr. rer. nat. Dipl. Biologin
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Department Ökologische Systemanalyse
Helmholtz-Zentrum
für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig
Tel: 0341 235 1723
maria.langhammer@ufz.de

Research interests
- Agricultural landscape simulation
- Biodiversity responses to land use change
- Bioenergy-driven biodiversity decline
- Effects of the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP)
- Individual- and Agent-based Modelling
Since 07/2019
Coordinator at the HIGRADE – Helmholtz Interdisciplinary GRADuate School for Environmental Research, UFZ
Since 04/2018
Research Associate at the Department of Ecological Modelling, UFZ
06/2013 - 05/2019
Research Assistant in the Scientific Coordination Team of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
10/2013 - 12/2017
PhD Scholarship of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Thesis: Simulating biodiversity responses to land use mosaics in agricultural landscapes: an overview of possibilities and potentials
09/2011 - 04/2013
Research Assistant at the Department of Bioenergy, UFZ
01/2010 - 10/2012
Project Assistant at GRÜNE LIGA e.V. and Ökolöwe - Umweltbund Leipzig e.V.
10/2002 - 09/2009
Biology studies (Diploma) at University of Greifswald and Freie Universität Berlin
Thesis: Ecology of coastal plant communities at Absheron National Park, Azerbaijan
2020 (1)
- Langhammer, M., Grimm, V. (2020):
Mitigating bioenergy-driven biodiversity decline: A modelling approach with the European brown hare
Ecol. Model. 416 , art. 108914 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108914
2019 (2)
- Langhammer, M. (2019):
Simulating biodiversity responses to land use mosaics in agricultural landscapes: an overview of possibilities and potential
Dissertation, Universität Potsdam
PhD Dissertation 6/2019
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, XI, 192 pp. - Langhammer, M., Thober, J., Lange, M., Frank, K., Grimm, V. (2019):
Agricultural landscape generators for simulation models: A review of existing solutions and an outline of future directions
Ecol. Model. 393 , 135 - 151 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.12.010
2017 (1)
- Langhammer, M., Grimm, V., Pütz, S., Topping, C.J. (2017):
A modelling approach to evaluating the effectiveness of Ecological Focus Areas: The case of the European brown hare
Land Use Pol. 61 , 63 - 79 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.11.004