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Leaders of Work Packges

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.

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.

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...

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