May 2024:
A warm welcome to Juliana Menger! She will support the ATTO Project as our new data manager.
April 2024:
Welcome to Peter Sander, who will support the group of Gerd Gleixner as a technical assistent.
August 2023:
We welcome Prof. Eric Gorgens, who is visiting for a month from the Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He is working with Daniel Marra & David Urquiza-Muñoz to add analysis of forest structure using Lidar data to other information at ATTO project sites and to look for how wind throws affect structure changes and biomass loss and recovery after wind throws.
Congratulations to Sophie von Fromm, who defended her PhD thesis on August 29 at the ETH in Zürich. Sophie will be moving to the US, where she was awarded a Neukom Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College.
July 2023:
A warm welcome to Alina Churiulina and Sigrid Günther who will support the groups of Jianbei Huang and Gerd Gleixner as technical assistants.
Welcome also to Kai Wang and Yuedan Zhao, who will be with us for the next six months as guests of Jianbei Huang.
June 2023:
We congratulate Juliane Helm for successfully defending her PhD thesis titled “From theory to methods and applications - for a better understanding of stem respiration and carbon dynamics in mature trees”, and wish her all the best in her future endeavors.
May 2023:
Welcome Jarin Jose, who just started as a PhD student in the group of Marion Schrumpf.
April 2023:
We welcome Qiwen Zhang, who will work as a PhD student with Boaz Hilman.
March 2023:
A warm welcome to Iryna Klimkina. The Ukranian scientist will have her base at the Bergakademie Freiberg, but will collaborate closely with us.
Congratulations to Shane Stone to successfully defening his PhD thesis recently!
January 2023:
We welcome two new employees to the department. Chenna Sun starts her PhD research with Jianbei Huang, and Alina Churiulina supports Gerd Gleixner's group as a technical assistant.
November 2022:
Gerd Glexiner's group gets another new member with doctoral student Agata Garsia. Welcome, Agata!
October 2022:
Chen Huang is a new PhD student in the group of Gerd Gleixner. Welcome!
Rachael Akinyede has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
August 2022:
Arina Ivanova starts as a PhD student in the group of Gerd Gleixner. Welcome!
July 2022:
We welcome two new members to the department. Ye Yuan is a PhD student in the group of Marion Schrumpf, and Wang Song is PhD student who will be here as a guest until February 2023 as a guest in the group of Carlos Sierra.
April 2022:
Welcome to Viviana Horna, who just joined the dapartment as the new Scientific Coordinator for of the ATTO project.
January 2022:
Welcome to Antje Uhde, a new PhD student in collaborarion with the Department of Geography at the University Jena, Jessica Finck, a new PhD student in the Molecular Biogeochemistry Group, and Hella van Asperen, who just started as a new PostDoc in the department as part of the ATTO project.
November 2021:
Welcome to Sam Jones, who just started as a new PostDoc in the department as part of the ATTO project.
September 2021:
Welcome to Estefanía Muñoz, who just started as a new PostDoc in the Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology group.
August 2021
Welcome to Michelle Robin, who just started as a new Ph.D. student in the ATTO project.
July 2021
Kasun Gayantha successfully defended his thesis on the "Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of South Asian Monsoon Variability in Sri Lanka". Congratulations!
