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Dr. Friderike Beyer

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University of Freiburg
Forest ecology

Member of the Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS)
October 2024 – September 2027

E-Mail: friderike.beyer@waldbau.uni-freiburg.de

Last Update: 08.11.2024

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Friderike Beyer is a researcher and Margarete-von-Wrangell fellow at the Chair of Silviculture, University of Freiburg. Her current work focuses on the belowground dynamics of forests and agroforestry systems and the analysis of nature based solutions and forest management for climate change adaptation and mitigation.

She studied International Forest Ecosystem Management and Forest Ecology at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, the University of Göttingen and Oulu University of Applied Sciences in Finland. After her studies she was awarded a Carlo Schmid Program Fellowship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and worked for the Forestry and Timber Section at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNCEC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Next, she received her doctoral degree from the University of Göttingen within the cluster of Excellence “Functional Biodiversity Research” at the Department of Plant Ecology and Ecosystem Research. Since her PostDoc in Sweden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala she is actively working together with members of the tree diversity network (TreeDivNet) on topics about biodiversity ecosystem functioning and contact person for the tree diversity experiment here in Freiburg (IDENT). TreeDivNet is the largest network of tree biodiversity experiments worldwide. In total, over 1.2 million trees were planted in the 32 experiments on a total surface of ca. 900 ha.

Selected Publications

YAS Project