Alumni - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

CLE Alumni (of the past 8 years)

This is an overview of colleagues that spent a considerable time at the Department of Computational Landscape Ecology or finished their Ph.D. in collaboration with staff from the department.

Dr. Carsten Buchmann

Project Scientist BMBF-Project 'Energy-efficient city Delitzsch' (2012-2015)

Present affiliation:
Universität Hohenheim
Stuttgart, Germany

Dr. Anna Cord

Head of working group "Biodiversity and Ecosystem services" (2012-2020)

Present affiliation:
Technische Universität Dresden
Institute of Geography
Chair of Model-based Landscape Ecology

Guest Scientist
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (CLE)
Leipzig, Germany

Diana Derepasko

PhD student in the project EuroFlow (2018-2021)

Present affiliation:
Regional Environmental Protection Agency, ARPA
Environmental Impact Assessment Division
Italy

Dr. Christophe Dominik

PhD student/Scientist in the LEGATO project (2012-2019)

Present affiliation:
Postdoctoral researcher in the
Department of Community Ecology (BZF)
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Halle, Germany

Steffi Erfurth

Technician (1986-2022)

Hanna Maria Friedrich

Project assistance in the "MigSoKo" junior research group (2019-2022)

Dr. Katharina Gerstner

PhD student/Scientist in the GLUES project (2011-2016)

Juliane Groth

PhD Student/Scientist in the "MigSoKo" junior research group
and in the GeoKur project (2017-2022)

Benjamin Haerdle

Research Associate Scientific Coordination and Management (2017)

Present affiliation:
Science Editor in the
Unit for Press and Public Relations (OEA)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Leipzig, Germany

Dr. Kathleen Hermans

Head of the "MigSoKo" junior research group (2016-2022)

Present affiliation:
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)
Halle, Germany

Madhumitha Jaganmohan

PhD student (2013-2016)

Present affiliation:
Guest Scientist
Department Landscape Ecology (CLE)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Leipzig, Germany

Dr. Christian Levers

Scientist (2018-2020)

Present affiliation:
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Dr. Veronika Liebelt

PhD student in working group Urban form (2013-2019)

Present affiliation:
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Biodiversity Economics Group
Leipzig, Germany

Prof. Dr. Markus Meyer

PhD student (2012-2016)

Present affiliation:
Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
Professor for National and International Nature Conservation
Köthen, Germany

Daniela Narr

Project Assistent in the project GLUES (2010-2017)

Julia Osterman

PhD Student (2017-2021)

Present affiliation:
Postdoctoral researcher
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
Freiburg, Germany

Julia Palliwoda

PhD student / Scientist (2017-2021)

Dr. Jörg Priess

Scientist (2009-2022)
Head of Working Group SALAS

Gabriela Rodriguez Barrera

PhD student in the working group BIOECOS (2018-2022)

Present affiliation:
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Institute of Geography
Chair of Model-based Landscape Ecology

Christoph Salbach

PhD student (2011-2016)

Present affiliation:
TRIGIS GeoServices
Project engineer in the Department Photogrammetry
Leipzig, Germany

Stefan Schmidt

Scientist (2011-2018)

zur Zeit tätig bei:
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institute for Environmental Planning
Hannover, Germany

Dr. Matthias Schröter-Vinke

Scientist (2017-2021)

zur Zeit tätig bei:
Zukunft-Umwelt-Gesellschaft gGmbH
Berlin, Germany

Gudrun Schuhmann

Technician (1992-1995 / 1998-2017)

Dr. Nina Schwarz

Scientist / Group leader Urban Form (2007-2017)

Present affiliation:
University of Twente
Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Enschede, The Netherlands

Dr. Jule Thober

Scientist in the Work Group MigsoKo (2017-2021)

Dr. Tomáš Václavík

Scientist (2011-2018)

Present affiliation:
Assistant Professor
Palacký University Olomouc
Faculty of Science | Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences
Olomouc, Czech Republic

Guest Scientist
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (CLE)
Leipzig, Germany

Andreas Werntze

Research Associate Scientific Coordination and Management (2006-2016)

Present affiliation:
Regionalbetreuung Sachsen-Anhalt
FriedWald GmbH
Griesheim, Germany

Dr. Charlotte Wiederkehr

PhD Student/Scientist in the "MigSoKo" junior research group (2017-2022)

Present affiliation:
Science Manager
eLTER Head Office
Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies (MET)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Leipzig, Germany

Contact

Assistance
Sindy Bleiholder
Phone: +49 341 235-1250

Nora Pabst
Phone: +49 341 235-1281

sekces@ufz.de

CLE-Newsletter 2022 (1.2 MB)

News/Press

Video in the Tagesthemen of the Tagesschau of Jul 28, 2022 (only in German)

Interview with Prof. Ralf Seppelt in the Tagesthemen about the Earth Overshoot Day.

Interview and video on Tagesschau24 of Jul 28, 2022 (only in German)

"All countries live on credit - year after year, humanity consumes more natural resources than the earth can renew. Landscape ecologist Ralf Seppelt explains what today's Earth Overshoot Day says - and what resource conservation can look like."

Video of MigSoKo (only in English)

MigSoKo Animation Video on Environmental Change and Human Migration.

Embedded in the scientific debate about understanding the causalities between environmental change and human migration, this animated video presents key results of the MigSoKo project.

Video of Nov 23, 2021 (only in German)

ARD - Das Erste, "Wissen vor 8. - Natur"

Given the drastic decline of media responses after the publication of the Global Assessment of IPBES in Mai 2019, IPBES and IPCC authors approached ARD and suggested to strengthen reporting on transformative change to fight the biodiversity and climate crisis. Finally we were invited to consult within the new series of „Wissen-vor-8“ on various topics such as zoonoses, agricultural monocultures, invasive species, climate change in the arctic.

Publications

The TALE project wins the BiodivERsA Prize for Excellence and Impact!

This animated movie presents the results of the TALE project (“Towards multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes in Europe”) which investigated the potential conflicts and possible synergies between agricultural services and biodiversity through the development of land use.

Tale Dissemination brochure The brochure (policy brief) "Preserving Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity on agricultural land" has been published and presents the objectives, findings and recommendations of our BiodivERsA project TALE.

download brochure (610.6 KB)

Atlas of Ecosystem Services Atlas of Ecosystem Services: Drivers, Risks, and Societal Responses.

Schröter, M., A. Bonn, S. Klotz, R. Seppelt, C. Baessler (eds., 2019). Springer, New York, 414 pages.

The “Atlas of Ecosystem Services“ contains 60 succinct chapters which deliver a comprehensive overview on the risks to sustained provision of ecosystem services. More than 260 authors, among them UFZ colleagues form 16 departments, have contributed to the book. Global and regional case studies shed light on the impacts of land use change, climate change and socio-economic drivers on ecosystem services, and their related (land use) conflicts. Furthermore, policy instruments and management options to address these risks are presented

Link to Springer (Download)

UFZ Policy Brief

Read book as e-paper

Cover WOCAT-Buch klein The book „Making sense of research for sustainable land management“ was developed in the framework of the GLUES project in cooperation with WOCAT.

Read book as e-paper

download book (16.5 MB)