Laurie Wojcik [PhD student]

Scientific career

since 2020          PhD student supervised by Pr. Dr. Ursula Gaedke, Dr. Christian Guill and Pr. Dr. Lutz Becks (Project Dynatrait)

2017 - 2019         Master of Science in Biology, Ecology and Evolution - Modelling in Ecology at Université de Rennes 1 (France)
                                Master’s thesis: Between trophic theory and macroecological data: allometric relations and functional response supervised by Matthieu 
                                Barbier and Michel Loreau (Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS Moulis, France)

2016 - 2019         Master of Science(Ecole d’ingénieur) in Agronomic and Ecological Sciences at Agrocampus Ouest Rennes (France)
                                 Thesis: Influence of 3 host seaweed species and their traits on the associated epibiotic assemblages supervised by John N. Griffin and
                                 Tom Fairchild (Swansea University, Wales)

2013 - 2016         Preparatory classes for Ecole d’Ingénieur atLycéeAlbert Châtelet Douai (France)
                                 Program : Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences and Mathematics National contest in Agronomic and Veterinary Sciences

Publications

Barbier, M., Wojcik, L., & Loreau, M. (2021). A macro-ecological approach to predation density-dependence. Oikos, 130:553-570. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08043)

Wojcik, L., Ceulemans R., & Gaedke, U. (2021). Functional diversity buffers the effects of a pulse perturbation on the dynamics of tritrophic food webs. Ecology & Evolution, 11:15639-15663. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8214)

Conferences

24-27 Jan. 2022        Fifth Workshop on Trait-Based Approaches to Ocean Life
                                         Online poster “Multitrophic diversity enhances resource use efficiency, production, top yield and robustness against perturbations 
                                          in tritrophic foodweb models” (Ruben Ceulemans, Laurie Wojcik, Christian Guill, George Adje, Ursula Gaedke)

14 Dec. 2021               Community Ecology (ComEc) conference
                                         Online oral presentation “Functional diversity increases the robustness of tritrophic plankton foodwebs to a nutrient pulse” (Laurie
                                         Wojcik, Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke)
                                         Best Talk Award

12-15 Dec. 2021         Joint British Ecological Society (BES) and Société Française d’Ecology et d’Evolution (SFE², French Society for Ecology and
                                          Evolution) conference
                                          Online poster “Functional diversity increases the robustness of tritrophic plankton foodwebs to a nutrient pulse” (Laurie Wojcik,
                                          Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke)
                                          Online poster “Functional diversity can increase the robustness of a tritrophic foodweb to press perturbations” (George Adje, 
                                          Laurie Wojcik, Ursula Gaedke)

4-7 Oct. 2021               DynaTrait conference in Potsdam
                                          Oral presentation “Functional diversity buffers the effects of a nutrient pulse on the dynamics of tritrophic plankton foodwebs”
                                          (Laurie Wojcik, Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke)
                                          Poster “Functional diversity can increase the robustness of a tritrophic foodweb to press perturbations” (George Adje, Laurie 
                                          Wojcik, Ursula Gaedke)

27-30 Sept. 2021        Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie (DGL, German limnological society) conference in Leipzig.
                                          Oral presentation “Functional diversity alters the effects of a nutrient pulse on the dynamics of tritrophic plankton foodwebs”
                                          (Laurie Wojcik, Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke)

22-27 June 2021        Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) conference
                                          Online oral presentation “Functional diversity alters the effects of a nutrient pulse on the dynamics of tritrophic plankton
                                          foodwebs” (Laurie Wojcik, Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke)

14-17 Sept. 2020        DynaTrait conference in Potsdam
                                          Oral presentation “Response of tritrophic food chains and webs to external perturbations. Case of a pulse perturbation: nutrient
                                          pulse” (Laurie Wojcik, Ruben Ceulemans, Ursula Gaedke)