Lisa Hülsmann is Junior Professor for Ecosystem Analysis & Simulation since 1.10.2021

Prof. Dr. Lisa Hülsmann studied forest ecology and hydrogeology at the University of Göttingen and did her doctorate at ETH Zurich and at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL on data-based prediction of tree mortality. She then moved to the University of Regensburg as an academic councillor, where she researched the mechanisms behind tree species diversity. Since 2018, she has been leading a junior research group of the Bavarian Climate Research Network “bayklif”, in which the impacts of climate change on Bavarian and European forests are being estimated using data-driven, demographic forest models.

Lisa Hülsmann’s research aims to understand the dynamics of ecosystems in space and time, and to answer socially relevant questions that arise with regard to current ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. To this end, her research group analyses ecological data at local, regional, and global scales using statistical methods and integrates them into process-based vegetation and ecosystem models. One research focus of the professorship is forest ecosystems, which form a critical part of the global ecosphere, and are particularly affected by environmental changes due to their longevity.

Prof. Dr. Lisa Hülsmann’s teaching focuses on ecosystem dynamics and interactions between ecosystems, the environment, and humans. Methodological skills are another focus. “Statistics and programming are skills that are important today both in research and in professional life”, explains Prof. Dr. Lisa Hülsmann. “It is important to me to give students these tools and to break down their initial preconceptions. These topics don’t have to be dry or particularly difficult!”