Theoretical Biology Group Ecology and Evolution

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Group leader

Ph.D. Leonardo Oña

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Education:

  • MSc in Biology, University of Córdoba, 2006
  • MSc in Theoretical Physics, Instituto Balseiro, 2007 (Advisor: Guillermo Abramson)
  • PhD in Theoretical Biology, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Leipzig, 2014 (Advisors: Michael Lachman, Svante Pääbo)
  • Postdoc, University of Groningen, 2013-16 (Advisor: Sander van Doorn)

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PhD students

MSc Maria Kostakou (co-supervised with Dr. Stephanie Jurburg)

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Education:

  • MSc in Systems Biology, School of Biotechnology of the Agricultural University of Athens, 2019

Research Interest: Spatial assembly in soil microbial communities across scales, land cover, and land use


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MSc Shalu Dwivedi (co-supervised with Prof. Dr. Stefan Schuster)

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Education:

  • MSc in Fundamental Data Science, Grenoble Alpes University, France, 2019
  • Assistant Professor in Department of Mathematics, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial University, Lucknow, India, 2014 - 2017
  • MSc in Applied Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, 2013

Research Interest: Modelling and computer simulation of biochemical defense and evasion mechanisms


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Master students

BSc Anna Milchin

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Education:

  • BSc in Ecology, University of Osnabrück, 2020

Research Interest: The role of demographic stochasticity and space affecting chaotic dynamics and the paradox of the phytoplankton


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BSc Badis Gazbar

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Education:

  • BSc in Neurobiology, University of Düsseldorf, 2020

Research Interest: Constitutive and induced responses in host-parasite interaction networks


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BSc Nele-Carolin Sommer

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Education:

  • BSc in Ecology, University of Osnabrück 2023

Research Interest: Understanding the influence of species-specific dispersal rates and interaction partners on ecological network structure


Bachelor students

Finn Dinnus

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Research Interest: The fitness effects of partner loss in free-living mutualistic associations