E: gghedini [at] igc.gulbenkian.pt
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Giulia Ghedini
Group Leader, Functional Ecology Group @IGC (2021-present) I am an ecologist and my main interest is understanding the mechanisms that regulate the functioning of ecological communities. During my PhD at the University of Adelaide (2013-2016) in the lab of Prof. Sean Connell, I studied how changes in the strength of consumer-resource interactions may stabilise community processes to environmental change. These results led me to join the lab of Prof. Dustin Marshall at Monash University, first as a postdoc and then as a Australian Research Council DECRA fellow, to investigate how organisms uptake and expend energy in populations and communities. I became fascinated by the understanding the consequences of species interactions, such as competition, on energy use at different scales, from species to communities. In my lab at IGC we focus on marine phytoplankton to unravel the interplay among species interactions, organismal metabolism and community functioning. [CV] |
E: mklaassen [at] igc.gulbenkian.pt
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Moritz Klaassen
Lab Manager Moritz holds a degree in Environmental Science from the University of Oldenburg in Germany and a master’s degree in Marine Biological Resources from Ghent University in Belgium. He has specialized in applied marine ecology and conservation is particularly interested in experimental marine ecology. His past research includes drivers of organic carbon fluxes in tropical ecosystems and competition and coexistence in planktonic communities under the broad framework of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Moritz is joining the research group Functional Ecology of Dr. Giulia Ghedini at IGC as a laboratory manager. |
E: tnobre [at] igc.gulbenkian.pt
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Teresa Nobre
Research Assistant Teresa is a research assistant working with Dr. Giulia Ghedini on organismal metabolism regulation and its influence on ecosystem functioning. She holds a marine biology degree from the University of Plymouth and a master’s degree in tropical aquatic ecology from the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and Bremen University. Her past projects include research on the elemental stoichiometry and functional diversity of the coral symbiont Symbiodinium spp. and assessing environmental heavy metal pollution gradients in a seagrass meadow surrounding an Indonesian island. With a keen interest in coral reefs and their dynamic relationships, she aims to pursue a PhD on the mechanisms underlying differential bleaching responses and patterns of recovery and adaptation." |
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