Research topics
Our research focuses on three major fields: phylogenetics, Holocene and Pleistocene animal population dynamics, and the genetic basis of adaptions to changing environments. In addition, we develop and improve approaches for DNA sequence analyses, especially from degraded DNA. More details are available on these pages:
Collaborations
We are part of the University Research Center "Functional Ecology and Evolution".
We also collaborate with a variety of research groups all around the world, including:
- Love Dalen, Natural History Museum Stockholm
- Michael Knapp, University of Otago
- Arne Ludwig, IZW, Berlin
- Turi King, University of Leicester
- Ross MacPhee, Natural History Museum, New York
- Andrea Manica, University of Cambridge,
- Ludovic Orlando, Center for Geogenetics, Copenhagen
- Ron Pinhasi, University College Dublin
- Beth Shapiro, UC Santa Cruz
Funding
Selected projects:
- ERC grant 310763: GeneFlow
- DFG grant HO 349213-1: The Effects of Pleistocene Climatic Cycles on African Mammal Evolution: The Case of Hippotragin Antelopes
- Klaus Tschira foundation project 00.298.2016: The upper Rhine valley as a window to the Ice Age: climate and environment in south-west Germany during the Middle and Late Pleistocene
- EFRE grant 85000932: Improving the capabilities for genome sequencing and the identification of economically interesting genes and genotypes
A number of additional agencies also fund our research:
