Former group members
- Paul Berry | 2020 – 2021 | DAAD fellow student | ORYCS project (https://www.orycs.org/)
- Dr. Cara Gallagher | 2021 – 2024 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Dr. Katja Geißler | until 2019 | various projects in working group
- Dr. Antje Herde | 2015 – 2018 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Robert Hering | 2019 – 2023 | ORYCS project (https://www.orycs.org/)
- Dr. Dirk Lehmann | 2007 – 2020 | among others: ORYCS project (https://www.orycs.org/)
- Dr. Stefanie Maaß | 2016 – 2021 | Bridging in Biodiversity Science (BIBS)
- Dr. Johannes Metz | 2014 – 2018 | -
- Dr. Philipp Porada | 2018 – 2019 | Modelling impacts of environmental change on global diversity and functioning of non-vascular vegetation
- Dr. Jette Reeg | 2013 – 2021 | Development of a novel approach for risk characterization of non-target-terrestrial-plants at the plant community level (funded by and in collaboration with Bayer AG) | Bridging in Biodiversity Science (BIBS)
- Johanna Reinhard | DAAD fellow student
- Dr. Manuel Roeleke | 2019 -2024 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Marie- Sophie Rohwäder | 2018 – 2025 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Dr. Kristin Scharnweber | 2019 – 2023 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Dr. Merlin Schäfer | 2015 – 2021 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Dr. Ulrike Schlägel | 2015 – 2020 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove | Junior research group leader (DFG Emmy Noether Programme)
- Dr. Carolin Scholz | 2021 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Jonas Stiegler | 2018 – 2022 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Dr. Alexis Synodinos | 2011 – 2017 | Bridging in Biodiversity Science (BIBS)
- Maxi Tomowski | 2018 – 2022 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove
- Dr. Lina Weiß | 2017 – 2020 | Bridging in Biodiversity Science (BIBS)
- Dr. Madlen Ziege | 2018 – 2019 | DFG Research Training Group BioMove