REASSEMBLY’s first PhD thesis of the current phase. Timo’s successfully defended his thesis on “Assembly and stability of ecological communties and networks” on June 4th 2025 in the dapartment of Physics at the TU Darmstadt. His great oral defense required him drawing many equations on the black board. Congratulations!
Our PhD candidate Timo Metz (SP 1) presented one of our first results in the Reassembly Unit as a poster at an international meeting of the German Ecological Society (GFÖ) and two other organizations (SFE2, EEF) in Metz (November 24th, 2022). Timo has modelled the role of obligate vs non-obligate …
Quite calmly, our research activities in one of the best tropical field labs have just begun earlier this year. What a fantastic new place, equipped with modern lab interior and great working conditions and (still) a lot of space for our large group and more. What an incredible view on …
While part of the team already disappeared in the djungle, some of us just had a first inspiring meeting across different subprojects on how to connect theory and empiry when it comes to mutualistic network assembly. Our theoreticists from SP1 kicked off the meeting with an input presentation about their …
The REASSEMBLY research group has now a homepage! We can’t wait to start field work and will keep you posted here…
