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Group members
The following people currently build the research group:
Group leader
Secretary
Researchers
- Lee Ping Ang (Visiting Researcher)
- MSc Lukas Flinspach (PhD student)
- MSc Diana Jiménez (PhD student)
- MSc Nada Nikolic (PhD student)
- MSc Nishtha Prakash (PhD student)
- MSc Lirey Ramirez (PhD student)
- Dr. Xiangbo Yin
Technical Assistant
Former group members:
Dr. João P. Costa Elias: former visiting PhD student (2020-2022), epiphyte biogeography. As of 2023: planning for a postdoc project.
Dr. Glenda Mendieta Leiva: former post-doc and lecturer (2015-2023), ecology and diversity of vascular epiphytes. As of 2023: Research Fellow at the University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Biodiversity of Plants.
Dr. Monica B. Berdugo Moreno: former post-doc (2019-2023), epiphytic bryophytes. As of 2023: Research Fellow at the University of Marburg, Department of Biology, Plant Ecology and Geobotany.
MSc Elodie Moureau: researcher (2016-2020), rainforest bryophytes. Current occupation: Yoga teacher, France.
Dr. Rafaella Canessa: former PhD student (2016-2021), plant functional ecology. As of 2021: Postdoc at University of Tübingen, Institute of Ecology and Evolution.
Dr. Eyvar E. Rodríguez Quiel: former PhD student (2016-2020), tropical bryophytes. As of 2020: Professor / Laboratory analyst at the UCH Herbarium, Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, República de Panamá.
Dr. Anna Mezaka: former post-doc (2016-2019), epiphyll dynamics in a tropical rain forest. Current affiliation: Assoc. guest professor, senior researcher at the Daugavpils University.
Dr. Francisco E. Méndez Castro: former post-doc (2016-2019), island biogeography of spiders in epiphytes and in vegetation islands at alpine treeline. As of 2019: post-doc at the Czech Academy of Science, Trebon
Dr. Diana Gómez: former PhD student, epiphyte ecology and hydrology in a tropical montane forest, graduated in Oldenburg, 2017. Current affiliation: Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí, República de Panamá.
Dr. Zhe Wang: former post-doc (2015-2017), moss ecophysiology. As of 2017: lecturer at Shanghai Normal University
Dr. Hannah Loranger: former PhD student, tree regeneration at the alpine treeline, graduated in Oldenburg, 2016. Current occupation: permaculture consultant.
Dr. Carolina García: former PhD student, facilitation effects on high-Andean cushion plants, graduated in Concepción (Chile), 2016. Current affiliation: Researcher at the University of Halle, Plant Ecology group.