Members
Prof. Dr. Niko Balkenhol
Head of Department
Wildlife Genetics
Spatial Wildlife Ecology
Wildlife Management
Dr. Johannes Signer
PostDoc
Movement Ecology
Statistical Ecology
Research project: Lynx Project in Thuringia
Dr. Maximilian Hohm
PostDoc & Instructor for Special Assignments
Hunting and Wildlife Management
Research project: REHA - Harz Regional Study; Subproject: Reforestation and Wildlife Management
Dr. Catharina Ludolphy
PostDoc
Ecotoxicology
Food safety of wild game meat
Wildlife Management
Research project: Analysis of factors influencing the recorded harvest in Lower Saxony
Nicolas Firbas
Programmer
Research project: Development of an R package for analyzing wildlife harvest data
Micaela Pineda
PhD Student
Animal Behavior
Nesting Ecology
Movement Ecology
Research project: "Effects of small mammal movement behavior and competition on seed predation and seed dispersal"
Dunja Aleksic
PhD Student
Wildlife Management
Population Ecology
Ecological Modelling
Research project: Evaluation and improvement of methods for statistical reconstruction of populations via wildlife harvest data
Maya Hasenfuß
PhD Student
Harvest data analysis
Wildlife ecology
Wildlife Management
Research project: Investigation of the impact of abolishing harvest quotas on the roe deer harvest in Schleswig-Holstein
Rebecca Groninga
PhD Student
Movement Ecology
Wildlife Management
Forest ecosystem dynamics
Research project: Investigation of the spatiotemporal behavior of red deer and roe deer within the multifactorial interaction system of the Thuringian Forest (ReThRoWald)
Fritz Brockhaus
PhD Student
Research project: Historical and recent landscape influences on genetic variability of native cervids in Baden-Württemberg
Alumni