Christine Römermann

Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution | Professorship of Biodiversity of Plants

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Christine Römermann, Prof. Dr

Professor
Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution | Professorship of Biodiversity of Plants
Christine Römermann
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Research interests

  • Impact of changes in the environment on phenology and (functional) biodiversity
  • Impact of changes in the environment plant species richness and ecosystem structure
  • Distribution patterns in plant species – reasons for species rarity
  • Curriculum vitae
    • Since 4/2024. Director of the Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function (SIP) Jena.
    • Since 01/2024. Vice-president of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ).
    • Since 01/2023. Director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, FSU Jena (since 05/25 Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Systematics).
    • Since 09/2013. Professor for Plant Biodiversity, Institute of Ecology and Evolution with Herbarium Haussknecht and Botanical Garden,  Friedrich-Schiller University Jena.
    • Since 2014. Member and PI of the  German Centre of Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv)
    • Since 2019. Member of the science strategy board (SSB) and FlexPool Board of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv)
    • 2019-2022. Member of the scientific advisory board of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung.
    • Since 2022. Member of the faculty board and the budget and structural commission of the Faculty of Biological Science.
    • Since 2022. Coordinator of the study program and director of the examination board MSc Evolution, Ecology and Systematics MEES
    • 2015-2022. Equal opportunity officer of the Faculty of Biological Sciences.
    • Since 2014. (Founding-)member of the Michael Stifel Zentrums für datengetriebene und SimulationswissenschaftenExternal link.
    • 10/2011 – 08/2013. Junior Professor for Theoretical Ecology, Institute of Botany, Regensburg University
    • 06/2007 – 09/2011. Scientific researcher and lecturer in the Functional Biogeography Group, Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt.
    • 11/2002 – 05/2007. Scientific Researcher at the Chair for Botany, Regensburg University.
    • 05/2006. PhD thesis “Patterns and processes of plant species frequency and life-history traits”.
    • 03/2002 – 10/2002. Working contract („Werkvertrag“) in BMBF-project „MOSAIK“.
    • 10/1995 – 05/2002. Biology studies (diploma) Philipps University Marburg (scientific nature conservation, ecology, systematic zoology; Diploma thesis: The effects of historical melon and cereal cultivation on the actual vegetation structure of a dry steppic grassland: the example of the Crau (South-eastern France) (supervisors: Thierry Dutoit, Peter Poschlod).
    • 03/2000 – 08/2000. Training period in the Ecomusée de la Crau, St. Martin de Crau, France; in cooperation with the Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III, France.
    • 08/1999 – 09/1999. Ecological-botanical training period at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Reseach (IGER) in Okehampton, Devon (GB).
    • 10/1998 – 06/1999. 3rd year Bachelor am Imperial College London (Applied Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Evolutionary biology, Population and Community Ecology) (Erasmus-Programm)
    • 05/1995. High-school diploma (Abitur) at Gymnasium Neustadt am Rübenberge.
  • Publications

    A complete list of publications can be found under publications.