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

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

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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

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Christian Griebler

Steering committee member

Research Areas: Groundwater Ecology

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Jürgen Kriwet

Steering committee member

Research Areas: Vertebrate evolution, morphology, diversity patterns

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Verena Ibl

Steering committee member

Research Areas: Plant cell biology in crop seeds

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Harald Wilfing

Steering committee member

Research Areas: Human Ecology

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Maximilian Dreer

Steering committee member
(student representative)

Research interests: Ammonia Oxidizing Archaea, nitrogen cycle, soil Archaea, biofilm formation

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Constanze Schattke

Steering committee member
(student representative)

Research interests: ancient DNA, paleopathologies, the history of physical anthropology and bioarchaeology

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Daniel Martinovic Saavedra

Steering committee member
(student representative)

Research interests: microbial oceanography, phosphorus cycle, enzyme promiscuity, alkaline phosphatase

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Oliver Link

Steering committee member
(student representative)

Research interests: origin and evolution of striated muscle cells in the animal kingdom

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