Lab members (since 2000)

I am currently not accepting new PhD students or Postdocs

• Oskar Hagen, (PostDoc iDiv Leipzig, Germany)
  iDiv Flexpool PostDoc together with Renske Onstein and Jon Chase (2021-2023) Disentangling eco-evolutionary dynamics across temporal and spatial scales.
• Wirong Chanthorn (Assistant professor Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
  Humboldt fellow (2020-2022) Spatial interaction of lianas and trees in a tropical forest of Thailand
• Antonio Archidona Yuste (Postdoc , IFAPA Cordoba, Spain)
  Humboldt fellow (2019-2021) Variation of soil nematodes communities as driving agents of ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands
• Lukas Flinspach (PhD student, University of Marburg, Germany)
  DFG PhD project together with Maaike Bader (2019-2022) Alpine-treeline spatial patterns as indicators for climate-change responses: a global study using community-supported pattern-based modelling
• Victoria Jimenez Franco (Postoc, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain)
  Postdoctoral fellowship VALi+d of Valencian Community (2018-2020) Demographic and genetic response of terrestrial vertebrates to global change: assessment of impacts and mitigation strategies using simulation modelling
• Eva Gracia Martinez (Assistant Professor, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Elche, Spain)
  Postdoctoral fellowship VALi+d of Valencian Community (2015-2017) Changes in species distribution as consequence of global change: development of simulation models to understand their mechanisms
• Felix May (Staff Researcher, University of Potsdam, Germany)
  Postdoc ERC advanced grant (2012-2015) Spatially-explicit neutral theory for assessing conditions for coexistence in plan communities
• Jose Fedriani (Staff Researcher, CIDE-CSIC, Valencia, Spain )
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2012-2014) Incorporating Allee effects and disperser behavior into complex recruitment kernels
• Guochun Shen (Associate Professor, East China Normal University, China)
  ERC advanced grant (2011-2012) Phylogenetic spatial point pattern analysis of tropical forests
• Martin Kazmierczak
  ERC advanced grant (2011-2014) Dynamics of tropical forests
• Stephan Getzin (PostDoc, University of Göttingen, Germany)
  ERC advanced grant (2010-2015) Spatial point pattern analysis of tropical forests
• Eduardo Velázquez (PostDoc, iuFOR, University of Valladolid, Spain)
  ERC advanced grant (2010-2014) Spatial point pattern analysis of tropical forests
• Ruwan Punchi-Manage (Senior Lecturer, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)
  DAAD PhD fellowship and ERC advanced grant (2010-2014), defended 2014 Identifying spatial patterns of tropical rain forest in Sri Lanka
• Alvaro Gutierrez (Assistant Professor, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile)
  ERC advanced grant SPATIODIVERSITY (2010) Individual-based and spatially-explicit version of FORMIND
• Javier Rodriguez Perez (Researcher, University of Navarra, Spain)
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2009-2011) The spatial patterns of disruption of plant-animal interactions within a population dynamic approach
• Rajapandian Kanagaraj (Researcher, French Institute of Pondicherry, India)
  ERC advanced grant SPATIODIVERSITY (2009-2015) Habitat modeling and spatial pattern analysis of tropical forests
• Maite Louzao Arsuaga (Senior researcher, AZTI Marine Research, Spain)
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (2009-2011) Marine protected areas for the conservation of marine top predators
• Florian Hartig (Professor, University Regensburg, Germany)
  ERC advanced grant SPATIODIVERSITY (2009-2012) Statistical inference for stochastic simulations models
• Pablo Cipriotti (Reseracher Facultad de Agronomía – IFEVA / CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  Georg Forster fellowship, Humboldt Foundation (2008-2010) Patch dynamics in arid ecosystems from Patagonian steppe: The role of shrub populations and biotic interactions, and the effects of grazing and droughts
• Isabel Martinez Cano (PostDoc, Princeton University, USA)
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship and ERC advanced grant (2008-2010) A model for Pyrenean treeline: from individuals to landscapes under a changing climate
• Jose Daniel Anadon (Ramon y Cajal Reseracher, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spain)
  Postdoctoral fellowship of Fundación Séneca (2008-2010) Population dynamics and connectivity of populations of spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo graeca) in fragmented landscapes in southeast Spain
• Eva Garcia (PhD)
  UFZ guest scientist fellowship (2004-2005), defended 2006 Effect of canopy structure on rainfall partition of three shrub species in semiarid climate
• Stephanie Kramer-Schadt (Professor, TU Berlin and Researcher Leipzig IZW, Berlin, Germany)
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (1999-2002) PhD fellowship German Federal Environmental Foundation, defended 2002 Scenarios assessing the viability of a lynx population in Germany
• Eloy Revilla ( Staff researcher and director Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
  Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (1999-2002) Individual-based spatially explicit models applied to the conservation of the endangered Iberian lynx

Recent visitors (> 1 month) since 2015

Stephen Murphy (2015), Ian McFadden (2015), Maria Genoveva Gatti (2015), Wirong Chanthorn (2015), Antonio Archidona Yuste (2016), Andres Fuentes (2017-2018), Maria Victoria Jimenez Franco (2017), Xugao Wang (2017), Kelly Ribeiro (2018), Xugao Wang (2018), Pablo Cipriotti (2018/2019), Antonio Perea Martos (2020/2021), Raquel Muñoz-Gallego (2021)