FutureBioCity (Principal Investigator, granted on 05.03.2023, will start from 01.07.2023, more details will be followed soon)
Institutions involved: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, City of Karlsruhe, FU Berlin, University of Heidelberg)
Funding: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
GrüneLunge 2.0 – Transformation towards resilient urban forests
(Principal-Investigator) (until 2023)
Institutions involved: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, German Weather Service, Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg, City of Karlsruhe
Funding: German Aerospace Centre (DLR), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Expanding the ecological, silvicultural, and technical knowledge about forest fires. Sub-project 5: Development of silvicultural strategies for the regeneration of fire-damaged stands (Principal-Investigator) (until 2023)
Institutions involved: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Landeskompetenzzentrum Forst Eberswalde, Institute of Fire - North Rhine Westphalia
Funding: The Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR), German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to develop strategies for increasing the resilience of trees in growing cities and urban regions (GrüneLunge or GreenLung) (Principal-Investigator) (until 2022)
Institutions involved: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, German Weather Service, Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg, City of Karlsruhe, City of Rheinstetten
Funding: German Aerospace Centre (DLR), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Assessing ecosystem services in mixed forests of silver fir and European beech in southwest Germany, under a bigger project namely "Potential of beech-fir mixed forests to adapt from the climate change impacts in commercial forests" (Co-Investigator) (until 2019)
Collaborators: Iulia Almeida, Dr. Christine Rösch
Institutions involved: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Freiburg
Funding: German Federal Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture (BMEL)
Influence of anthropogenic disturbances, biotic, and abiotic factors on the natural regeneration and coppicing ability of 10 species of Quercus, Castanopsis, and Lithocarpus: study in a threatened biodiversity hotspot of Meghalaya, Northeast India (Principal Investigator and Pedagogic Mentor) (until 2020)
Collaborators: Prem Prakash Singh, Anna Floria Geßler, Florian Dermann, Dr. Dibyendu Adhikari, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus, Prof. Dr. Saroj K Barik
Institutions involved: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, University of Freiburg, National Botanical Research Institute (India), Northeastern Hill University (India)
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), European Forest Institute (EFI)
GrüneLunge 2.0 – Transformation towards resilient urban forests
Assessment of potential trade-offs between strategies to increase carbon stock and adaptive capacities of forests under climate change (2nd Postdoc, 2014-2016)
Collaborator: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus
Institution involved: University of Freiburg
Funding: Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe), German Federal Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture (BMEL)
Can the resistance and resilience of trees to drought be increased through thinning to adapt forests to climate change? (1st Postdoc, 2013-2014)
Collaborators: Dr. Julia Sohn, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus
Institution involved: University of Freiburg
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Impact of drought on European beech trees in dry temperate forests (Pedagogic Mentor, 2012-2017)
Collaborators: Dr. Tamalika Chakraborty, Prof. Dr. Albert Reif
Institution involved: University of Freiburg
Funding: Heinrich Böll Foundation
Assessing vulnerabilities of Himalayan forests to climate change impacts and anthropogenic disturbances (Pedagogic Mentor, 2013-2014)
Collaborators: Dr. Anusheema Chakraborty, Prof. Dr. Pawan K. Joshi
Institution involved: University of Freiburg, TERI University (India), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Development of tree quality, productivity, and diversity in oak (Quercus robur and Quercus petraea) stands established by cluster planting (Doctoral project, 2008-2012)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kohnle
Institution involved: University of Freiburg, Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Collaborator: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus
Institution involved: University of Freiburg
Funding: Agency for Renewable Resources (Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe), German Federal Ministry of Nutrition and Agriculture (BMEL)
Can the resistance and resilience of trees to drought be increased through thinning to adapt forests to climate change? (1st Postdoc, 2013-2014)
Collaborators: Dr. Julia Sohn, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus
Institution involved: University of Freiburg
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Impact of drought on European beech trees in dry temperate forests (Pedagogic Mentor, 2012-2017)
Collaborators: Dr. Tamalika Chakraborty, Prof. Dr. Albert Reif
Institution involved: University of Freiburg
Funding: Heinrich Böll Foundation
Assessing vulnerabilities of Himalayan forests to climate change impacts and anthropogenic disturbances (Pedagogic Mentor, 2013-2014)
Collaborators: Dr. Anusheema Chakraborty, Prof. Dr. Pawan K. Joshi
Institution involved: University of Freiburg, TERI University (India), Jawaharlal Nehru University (India)
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Development of tree quality, productivity, and diversity in oak (Quercus robur and Quercus petraea) stands established by cluster planting (Doctoral project, 2008-2012)
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bauhus, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kohnle
Institution involved: University of Freiburg, Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg
Funding: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
