© Uni Leipzig, A. Gildemeister
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I head the Department of Systematic
Botany and Functional Biodiversity and the Botanical Garden at
the University of Leipzig. As founding director and member of
the speaker council of iDiv - the German Center for
Integrative Biodiversity Research - I am dedicated to the many
aspects of biological diversity. Following my previous role as
head of the Independent Junior Research Group Organismic Biogeochemistry 2005-2009 at the
MPI-BGC, I have remained loyal to the institute as a Max
Planck Fellow, leading the Functional Biogeography group
together with Jens Kattge.