Steering Committee
The Steering Committee consists of four faculty members and four student representatives. They support the director in administrative and management tasks as well as in strategic decisions.
Please note: The Steering Committee also serves as the Studienkonferenz of DSPL55.
Gerhard Herndl
Gerhard Herndl
Head of VDSEE
Steering committee member
Professor, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences and
Dept. of Limnology & Bio-Oceanography
Research Areas: Biological Oceanography and Marine Biogeochemistry
Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss
Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss
Vice Head of VDSEE
Steering committee member
Professor for Plant Cytogenetics
Group Leader Plant Evolutionary Cytogenetics
Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
Research Areas: Plant genome evolution
Jürgen Kriwet
Steering committee member
Research Areas: Vertebrate evolution, morphology, diversity patterns
Maximilian Dreer
Maximilian Dreer
Steering committee member
(student representative)
Research interests: Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea, nitrogen cycle, soil Archaea, biofilm formation
Constanze Schattke
Constanze Schattke
Steering committee member
(student representative)
Research interests: ancient DNA, paleopathologies, the history of physical anthropology and bioarchaeology
Daniel Martinovic Saavedra
Daniel Martinovic Saavedra
Steering committee member
(student representative)
Research interests: microbial oceanography, phosphorus cycle, enzyme promiscuity, alkaline phosphatase
Oliver Link
Oliver Link
Steering committee member
(student representative)
Research interests: origin and evolution of striated muscle cells in the animal kingdom