Staff

Chair		Working area
	Prof. Dr. Winfried Kurth	Plant modeling, models of architecture and growth of trees including the development of description languages
Administration		Working area
	Agnieszka Melzer	Sekretariat
Scientific assistants		Working area
	Dr. Irina Kuzyakova	Geostatistics, Time series analysis
	Thomas Hay	3D data acquisition and biometric simulation of different spruce phenotypes
	Tim Oberländer	Evolutive adaptation of graph transformation rules, system administration
	Aleksi Tavkhelidze	Mathematical foundations of modelling, upscaling, teaching image analysis and computer graphics
Externals		Working area
	PD Dr. Matthias Albert	Forest growth, Forest yield science
	Dr. Peter Surovy	Sibylla Kartografer, Terra Explorer
Alumni (assortment)		Working area
	Dr. Faustino Hilario Chi	Structural-functional plant models, simulation of mangroves, data management
	PD Dr. Wilfried Hakes	eLearning
	Dr. Gaëtan Heidsieck
	Dr. Michael Henke	Model description languages, Models of structure and function of plants, Pattern detection
	Dr. Reinhard Hemmerling	Computer graphics Model description languages
	Dr. Dirk Lanwert	models of structure and functions of plants, ELearning-Project, Student Advisory Service M.Sc./B.Sc. Ecoinformatics and PHD-Environmental Informatics
	Dr. Qinqin Long	Functional-structural plant models, ecoinformatics, software development, data modelling, simulation
	Dr. Nikolas von Lüpke	Sampling methods for forest inventories
	Dr. Reinhold Meyer	Administrator, Network systems, Computer pool support
	Prof. Dr. Jürgen Nagel	Forest growth, Forest yield science TreeGrOSS, BWinPro
	Dr. Tim Ritter	Research Data Management, Geographic Information Systems, Sampling techniques
	Prof. Dr. J. Saborowski	Geostatistic and regionalization, Sampling methods and forest inventory
	Dr. Rainer Schulz	Modeling of data of the forest site mappings of the states Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia with GIS, GIS consulting
	Dr. Katarína Streit	(Functional-) Structural models
	Dr. Jan C. Thiele	BEST - Strengthening of Bioenergy Regions, Decision Support System - Forest and Climate Change
	Ilona Watteler-Spang	Secretariat
Founder of the department
	Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Branislav Sloboda 1943-2025