Felix Sauke
Contact/ Address
Felix Sauke
PhD student
Department Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis (ASAM)
Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research - UFZ
Brückstr. 3a, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
felix.haeffner@ufz.de
Research interests
- Molecular ecology
- Ecological modelling
- Tree physioloy
- Plant - insect interactions
- Forest growth processes
- Terrestrial biogeochemistry
My current research investigates the influence of alternative reforestation scenarios on carbon and nutrient exports from forest sites after forest diebacks in the central-german Harz region. I particularly focus on the question how different forest communities influence carbon and nutrient exports via tree species composition and forest growth dynamics, especially after disturbance events. Within this context I am currently developing a coupled forest - soil model system which can on the one hand simulate forest developments of different forest types and can on the other hand also simulate biogeochemical flows in forest soils. In order to achieve this I would like to combine the individual-based forest growth model FORMIND and the microbially-explicit Jena Soil Model via an innovative coupling approach.
CV
| 2024 | PhD student at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ Magdeburg in the Department Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management, thesis: Modelling the influence of different reforestation scenarios on carbon exports, nutrient exports and water quality in the Harz region |
| 2023 | Resarch assistant at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ Magdeburg in the Department Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management conducting a literature analysis towards the state of the art for coupled forest - soil models |
| 2020 - 2023 |
M. Sc. in Forest and Ecosystem Sciences (study track Ecosystem Analysis and Modelling) at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Master thesis: Individual-based modelling of apple productivity and leaf miner infestation dynamics |
| 2019 |
9 month internship during my exchange semester at the University Centre in Svalbard (Longyearbyen, Norway) about Metabarcoding of meiobenthic communities in different Arctic fjords |
| 2017 - 2020 |
B. Sc. in Molecular Ecosystem Sciences at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Bachelor thesis: Investigating stomatal anatomy in genetically modified poplars under drought stress with overexpression of a wax ester synthase |
| 2013 - 2015 |
Apprenticeship as Biological Technical Assistent at the Jörg-Zürn Gewerbeschule Überlingen |
| 2012 - 2013 | Bundesfreiwilligendienst at the Institute for Forest Growth, Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Laboratory for year ring analysis |