Departments
Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity
About us
Get to know the 18 departments, 2 early-career research groups, and our affiliated researchers, who shape the Institute’s research, teaching, and academic profile.
Head of Deptartments
Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt
Head of Department Systematic and Marine Zoology - Crustaceen
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Henner Hollert Head of Department Evolutionary Ecology Environmental Toxicology
Prof. Dr. Axel Janke Head of Department Evolutionary Genomics
Prof. Dr. Sven Klimpel Head of Department Integrative Parasitology and Zoophysiology
apl. Prof. Dr. Ottmar Kullmer Head of Department Paleobiology and Environment
Prof. Dr. Deborah Leigh Head of Department Genomic Biomonitoring
Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller Head of Department Movement Ecology and Biodiversity Protection
Prof. Dr. Jörg Oehlmann Head of Department Aquatic ecotoxicology
Prof. Dr. Meike Piepenbring Head of Department Mycology
Prof. Dr. J.F. Niek Scheepens Head of Department Plant Evolutionary Ecology
Prof. Dr. Imke Schmitt
Head of Department Adaption and Climate
Prof. Dr. Flurina Schneider Head of Department Social Ecology and Transdisciplinarity
Prof. Dr. Lisa M. Schulte Head of Department Wildlife- and Zoo-Animal-Biology and Systematics
Prof. Dr. Stefan Wanke Head of Department Biodiversity and Molecular Evolution of Flowering Plants
Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart Head of Department Marine Biodiversity
Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner Head of Department Ecosystems Sciences
Prof. Dr. Marco Thines
Head of Department Evolutionary Analysis and Biological Archives
Prof. Dr. Volker Wenzel Head of Department Didactics of Life Sciences
Associate Professors
Prof. Dr. Oskar Hagen
Center for Critical Computational Studies
Prof. Dr. Heike Zimmermann-Timm
Principal University of Applied Sciences Dresden
Adjunct Professors
Hon.-Prof. Dr. Heinz Hänel
Non-tenured Professors
apl. Prof. Dr. Jens Amendt
Institute of Forensic Medicine, Goethe University
apl. Prof. Dr. Werner Brack
Head of Department Exposure Science, UFZ
apl. Prof. Dr. Andrea Sundermann
Head of the River Ecosystem Management Section, Senckenberg
Private Lecturers
PD Dr. Sebastian Klaus
PD Dr. Eike-Lena Neuschulz
Head of the Interaction Ecology and Climate Research Group, Senckenberg
PD Dr. Matthias Oetken
Aquatic Ecotoxicology, Goethe University
PD Dr. Hanieh Saeedi
Section Biodiversity Information, Senckenberg
PD Dr. Elke Schleucher
Integrative Parasitology and Zoophysiology, Goethe University
PD Dr. Krister T. Smith
Department Paleobiology and Environment
PD Dr. Carolin Völker
Research Scientist, ISOE
Junior Research Groups
Dr. Jonas Jourdan Head of Junior Research Group in Animal Evolutionary Ecology
Dr. Jo Nyffeler Head of the Junior Research Group High-Throughput Ecotoxicology
