Doctoral researchers
Currently, 21 doctoral researchers (from the Universtity Duisburg-Essen and four external institutions in Bochum, Kiel, Berlin and Magdeburg) are part of the IRTG belonging to the different research projects within RESIST.
Each doctoral researcher has a Supervisory Team which includes the PI from the corresponding project, a PI from another project within RESIST and a non-academic mentor. The supervisors provide support to the doctoral researchers in directing their research activities, in giving regular feedback on preliminary results and secondment experiences, and in monitoring their personal career development plans.
Detailed information about each doctoral researcher, the projects and the supervisory teams can be found under the corresponding project.
Rena Andräs
Project A01
Thesis: Microbial key processes and key species during drought and re-wetting of river sediments
Rudolf Walter
Project A02
Thesis: Effects of stressor hierarchies on river microbial communities during degradation and recovery from drought
Mimoza Dani
Project A03
Thesis: Microphytobenthos community recovery: time scales of asymmetric recovery and the modulation of priority effects by stressor severity
Dana Bludau
Project A06
Thesis: The roles of bacteria and fungi for CPOM degradation during stressor increase and release: A metatranscriptomic approach
Jana Rees
Project A08
Thesis: Integrative analysis of drought-related multiple stressor effects on freshwater macroinvertebrates
Maya Kays
Project A09
Thesis: Parasite-mediated responses of aquatic hosts to environmental stress: experimental and field-based insights from recovering stream ecosystems
Alexander Rogalla
Project A10
Thesis: Predator-induced behavioural changes of macroinvertebrates in riverine ecosystems regarding changing environmental conditions
Lukas Paul Loose
Project A14
Thesis: Modelling degradation and recovery dynamics of environmental stressors during low flow, desiccation and rewetting periods for micro-and mesoscale catchments
Damian Biehs
Project A16
Thesis: Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Macroinvertebrate Dispersal
Luan Farias
Project A18
Thesis: Delineating multiple stressor-response relationships at the individual level: A mechanistic modelling approach
Victoria Bartholomai
Project A19
Thesis: Recovery from moderate and severe degradation: ARC theory for the patterns and processes that define full or failed reassembly, and shifts to alternative states
Christina Panagopoulou
Project A20
Thesis: Mechanistic Modelling of Metacommunity Dynamics under Multiple Stressors in Stream Networks
Hsin-Tung Lai
Project A22
Thesis: Viral (and host) microdiversity reponse to multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystem
Lara Thissen
Project A23
Thesis: Responses of parasitic protist communities and their effects on their macroinvertebrate hosts under different degradation and recovery conditions
Kolja Maaß
Project A24
Thesis: Long-term multi-stressor trajectories in Central European rivers
