Dr. Kevin Karbstein
PostDocFlora Incognita
Main Focus
- Phylogenomics
- Genome Biology
- Speciation and Biodiversity
- Machine Learning
- Geometric Morphometrics
- Trait Variation, Environmental Heterogeneity and Genetic Diversity
- Adaptation to different (extreme) Climatic Conditions
- R-Programming and -Statistics
- Red List Mapping of Endangered Species
Curriculum Vitae
10/2022 – present Research assistant (PostDoc) at Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany – in collab. with TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
10/2021 – 09/2022 Research assistant (PostDoc) at the Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Science,Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany.
12/2017 – 10/2021 PhD student at the Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Science, Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants (with Herbarium), Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. PhD-thesis (DFG, SPP 1991 TaxonOmics): “The biodiversity of apomictic polyploid plants: the Ranunculus auricomus complex.“ (final grade: "summa cum laude")
10/2014 – 09/2017 Master of Science in Evolution, Ecology and Systematics, Institute of Systematic Botany with Herbarium Haussknecht and Botanical Garden, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Master thesis: “Moving beyond assumptions: Relationships between population size, genetic and functional diversity, and habitat heterogeneity in Trifolium montanum.“
08/2016 – 09/2017 Research assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Human History, Jena, Germany.
10/2015 – 03/2016 Internship and following working contracts at the 'Forstliche Forschungs- and Kompetenzzentrum (FFK)', Gotha, Germany. Project: “Forest adaptation in the middle, high und ridge altitudes of Thuringian Forest.“
10/2011 – 09/2014 Bachelor of Science Biology, Institute of Systematic Botany with Herbarium Haussknecht and Botanical Garden, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Bachelor thesis: “Biologisch-ökologische Untersuchungen an Thymus praecox Opiz in den Badlands und in den umliegenden Halbtrocken- und Trockenrasen Thüringens mit Etablierung von Mikrosatellitenmarkern.“
06/2011 Abitur Gustav-Freytag-Gymnasium Gotha, Thuringia, Germany