Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Project Leader
Associate professor at Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), Globe institute, specializing in restoration ecology, forest ecosystems and fungal biodiversity.
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Leaders of Work Packges
Andrea Rinaldi
Project Vice-coordinator
Full professor of biochemistry at University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, specializing in ecology, systematics and biogeography of ectomycorrhizal fungi.
Jorinde Nuytinck
Leader of Work Package 1
Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, the Netherlands and visiting professor at Ghent University, Belgium, specializing in systematics and evolution of several large genera in Basidiomycota and in urban hidden biodiversity....
Kadri Poldmaa
Co-leader of Work Package 1
Systematics and ecology of fungicolous hypocrealean ascomycetes, biodiversity of associates of fungal fruitbodies
Lukáš Picek
Leader of Work Package 2
University of West Bohemia, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Czechia
Julia Pawłowska
Leader of Work Package 3
Deputy head of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Warsaw, specializing in systematics of Mucoromycota and bacterial-fungal interactions.
Danny Haelewaters
Co-leader of Work Package 3
Visiting Professor and Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, and Researcher at the University of South Bohemia. He is interested in understudied groups of fungi in understudied habitats. The groups...
Andrin Gross
Leader of Work Package 4
Andrin Gross is a mycologist; PhD 2013, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on various aspects of the ash dieback pathogen Hymenoscyphus fraxineus; postdoctoral studies at ETH Zurich (2013-2016) on the same...
Håvard Kauserud
Co-leader of Work Package 4
Håvard Kauserud is a Professor in mycology at the University of Oslo, Norway. His main research interests fall within the areas of molecular ecology, community ecology and evolution of fungi.
Franz-Sebastian Krah
Leader of Work Package 5
Fungal ecologist, postdoc at the University of Bayreuth in the Chair Ecology of Fungi and research associate at CzechGlobe Global Change Research Institute (CAS) in Brno