at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Negin Katal

PhD student with the Flora Incognita project
room: C3.005 (tower)
phone: +49 3641 576213
email: nkatal(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de
Twitter @KatalNegin

Actual Projects at BGI | Academic background | Research interests | Publications

Actual Projects at BGI:

Using Flora Incognita plant observation data and applying deep learning for phenological modeling
Flora Incognita Interactive Plant Species Identification with Mobile Devices

Academic background

M.Sc. Geoecology / Landscape Ecology at Bayreuth University, Germany.

Master Thesis: "Contribution of endemism to dark diversity on an environmental heterogeneous and taxonomically diverse oceanic island"

B.Sc. Biology / Plants Biology at University of Tehran, Iran.

Bachelor Thesis: "Propagate Chenopodiaceae Family with tissue culture"

Research Interests:

Plants Ecology
Deep Learning
Pattern recognition
Botany

Publications

Cutts, V; Katal, N; Löwer, C; Algar, AC; Steinbauer, MJ; Irl, S; Beierkuhnlein, C; Field, R: The effect of small-scale topography on patterns of endemism within islands, Frontiers of Biogeography, 11.4(e43737), 1-11 (2019), doi:10.21425/F5FBG43737