Current PhD projects

Tracking movement, density and mortality of susceptible amplifying hosts (birds, rodents, bates, mammals).

Patterns of epiphytic bryophyte diversity in Gede-Pangrango National Park, Java, Indonesia.

System-based approach to evaluation and impact of Climate Smart Agriculture - pathway towards enhanced food security in West Africa.

Individual plant-growth monitoring based on uav imaging.

Plant ecology at the rescue of climate science.

Island biogeography meets the anthropocene.

LED-IT-BE: Control of assimilate partitioning in plants by LED light.

Historic Chinese Materia Medico revisited.

Regulation of microbial activity in terrestrial ecosystems, elucidated by measurements of gross nitrogen and phosphorous transformations.

Light use efficiency in vertical farms.

Effects of benthic animals on nutrient cycling in the water column.

Unravelling the evolutionary significance of the tripartite genome of Cucumber mosaic virus.

Upscaling tropical forest restoration: a multidisciplinary approach to mitigate climate change and conserve biodiversity.

The influence of soil amendments and crop choice on soil organic matter stability and nutrient dynamics in urban horticulture, growing livelihoods in the informal settlements of Kisumu and Ouagadougou.

Polar marine diversity and dynamics.

The ecology of large wild herbivores in the floodplains and foothills of the Himalayas of Nepal.

Crossing the ultimate tipping point: predicting death in C. elegans.

Developing of DYNAMIC domestic water poverty, agriculture water poverty, domestic rainwater harvesting suitability, agriculture rainwater harvesting suitability and flood hazard maps using remote sensing.

Micronutrients for better coffee yields.

LED lighting in greenhouse horticulture - photomorphological responses in relation to growth and production.

Motion planning and vision-based control for an outdoor gardening robot.

Rhizosphere microbiomes and traditional fermented beverages.

Quantify the rate and succession of evolutionary changes induced by ecological interactions.

Tiger in human dominated landscape.

Taxonomy and Systematics of Dissochaeta (Melastomataceae) and its allies.

Population dynamics of fungal populations infecting maize: potential of competitive exclusion of toxin producing fungi.

A probabilistic model for energy efficient use of LEDs in the greenhouse.

Energetics of cetacean movement.

Using ungulate herds as sentinels to detect and prevent poaching of megafauna in Kenya.

Decision support tools for sustainable cocoa intensification through ISFM adoption.

Shell, genital, and niche evolution of the Georissa species of Malaysian Borneo.

Third generation sequencing as a tool for African great ape conservation.

Biodiversity and recovery of secondary forests in tropical landscapes.

Quantifying cumulative effects of disturbance on wintering oystercatchers based on local responses, space use and time budgets.

eEcoLiDAR, eScience infrastructure for Ecological applications of LiDAR point clouds: reconstructing the 3D ecosystem structure for animals at regional to continental scales.

Climate Smart Forestry - Long term impacts of climate change on European forests, its forest management adaptation and subsequent wood supply from European forests.

Disentangling the environmental drivers of phagotrophy in photosynthetic protists and their underlying molecular signatures.

Integrating biogas production to nutrient recycling in localized food production.

Sponge communities drive reef communities from source to sink.

Quantitative genetics for hybrid diploid potato breeding.

Behaviour and welfare of black soldier flies in mass rearing conditions.

Populations, pressures and perspective of carnivores and the carnivore-livestock conflict in Ghanzi District, Western Botswana.

A social-ecological perspective on nutrient management in surface water networks.

Tick pathiobiome dynamics and disease risk.

The influence of climate change on soil fauna and the potential modifying role of ecosystem engineers.

Obstruction of fish migration in isolated artificial Delta Lakes.

Phylogenetic prospecting of Indonesian Coelogyninae (Orchidaceae) used as traditional antimicrobials.

Understanding the components of potato genotype adaptation and trait selection under different environments of Kenya for enhanced breeding for Sub Saharan Africa.

Biology of mycotoxins in traditionally fermented mahewu in Zimbabwe: the interaction between processing practices and the evolutionary genetics of toxin producing fungi.

A game-based approach to explore smallholder farmers’ decision-making process regarding land-use in the South-Western Amazon.