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E: gghedini [at] igc.gulbenkian.pt
​Giulia Ghedini
Group Leader, Functional Ecology Group @IGC (Dec 2021-present)

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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 stabilise community productivity 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 their 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 use marine phytoplankton to study the interplay between organismal metabolism, species interactions, and community functioning.
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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.
Supervised students

Carolina Rattner
, internship, Nov-Dec 2022. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia.
Mark Deleja, summer school project 2022. Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia. Project: "Assessing how changes in energy fluxes with population density affect competitive outcomes in phytoplankton".
Jiaye Qin, BcSc(Honours), Monash University 2020. Thesis: "Responses to competition in marine phytoplankton: an assessment of the underlying mechanisms".
Melanie Lovass, BcSc(Honours), Monash University 2019. Thesis: "Why do metabolic rates decline with an increase in population density?" paper

Former lab members
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​Teresa Nobre
 - Teresa joined the lab for six months as a research assistant, having 
a degree in marine biology 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. She was instrumental in setting up the lab and we are very happy that she is now pursuing her dream PhD at the University of Western Australia!
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