Mission Statement

The Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology within the Faculty of Life Sciences aims at a mechanistic understanding of ecological and evolutionary patterns and processes from organismic to ecosystem scale. Specifically, we study and teach biodiversity, symbioses, metabolic pathways, ecophysiology and ecosystem functioning in light of environmental change.

Units

Archaea Biology and Ecogenomics

Christa Schleper - Archaea Ecology and Evolution
Silvia Bulgheresi - Environmental Cell Biology
Simon Rittmann - Archaea Physiology & Biotechnology
Filipa Sousa - Genome Evolution and Ecology

 

Limnology

Christian Griebler - Groundwater Ecology
Katrin Attermeyer - Carbocrobe
Hubert Keckeis - Fish Ecology
Michael Schagerl - Phycology

 

 

Molecular Systems Biology

Wolfram Weckwerth - Systems Theory in Ecology and Biology
Palak Chaturvedi - Crops in a Changing Climate Environment
Ingeborg Lang - Structural and functional plant cell biology
Markus Teige - Plant signalling
Steffen Waldherr - Computational methods for systems biology
Stefanie Wienkoop - Plant-Microsymbiont Interaction


Bio-Oceanography and Marine Biology

Monika Bright - Marine Benthic Ecology
Gerhard Herndl - Microbial Oceanography
Thomas Reinthaler - Marine Microbial Biogeochemistry

News

30.09.2025
 

Scientists from Wolfram Weckwerth group and Nankai-University link physical fitness to blood biomarkers, with aspartate emerging as a key player

26.09.2025
 

We are delighted to announce that Cristina López Hidalgo has been awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Award by the University of Oviedo for her work...

26.09.2025
 

We are delighted to announce that Cristina López Hidalgo, from the Laboratory of Molecular Systems Biology (MOSYS), Department of Functional and...

10.09.2025
 

We are pleased to announce that Sarah Bowen has successfully defended her MSc thesis as part of the Surface Microlayer Project BASS. Her research...

08.09.2025
 

We are happy to welcome Shihai, our newest PostDoc, to the group!

 

He will be working on marine methane cycling using multidisciplinary methods.

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01.09.2025