Solveig Franziska Bucher

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

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Solveig Franziska Bucher, Dr

Scientist - Senckenberg Institute for Plant Form and Function
Institute of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution | Professorship of Biodiversity of Plants
Solveig Franziska Bucher
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Research interests

  • Phenological and ecophysiological adaptations of plants to climate change
  • Plant functional traits
  • Changes along elevational gradients
  • Impacts of herbivory on grassland ecosystems
  • Ethnobotany
  • Curriculum vitae
    • 01/2024. Present Scientist at the Senckenberg Institute of Plant Form and Function Jena (SIP), Functional Biodiversity group.
    • 10/2024. Habilitation and Venia Legendi: Panta Rhei – Seasonal Variations in Plant Phenology, Resistance and Performance.
    • Since 03/2021. Associate Editor at Folia GeobotanicaExternal link
    • Since 10/2019. Vice equal rights officer de of the faculty of Life Science.
    • Since 04/2019. Vicespeaker, since 2021 speaker of the working group plant population biology (PopBio)External link of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ).
    • Since 12/2017. PostDoc at FSU Jena, Institute of Ecology and Evolution.
    • 01/2014 – 12/2017. Continuation of the PhD at FSU Jena, Institute of Systematic Botany.
    • 05/2013 – 12/2013. Eliteförderung des Landes Bayerns, Scholarship.
    • 04/2012 – 12/2013. PhD student at Regensburg University, Institute of Botany, Theoretical Ecology group.
    • 09/2011 – 11/2011. Volunteering for WWF in Mindongy/Madagaskar. Working with local communities to protect the rain forests.
    • 04/2011 – 06/2011. Field work in the Kalahari/South Afrika (Potsdam University) studying the impacts of (over-) grazing on savanna ecosystems.
    • 03/2010 – 06/2010. Fieldwork in Yunnan/China for diploma thesis.
    • 08/2009 – 09/2009. Internship at Mpala research station in Laikipia/Kenia. Work on Ant-Acacia Symbiosis.
    • 03/2007 – 03/2011. Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Scholarship.
    • 09/2006 – 03/2011. Diplomstudium Biologie, Universität Hohenheim. 
      Main subjects: Botany, Plant Interactions and Biodiversity and Agricultural Ecology of the Tropics and Subtropics. Diploma thesis: The Collection of Wild Medicinal Plants in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, SW China  A Case Study on Its Sustainability in Consideration of the FairWild Standard.
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