MSc students:

Krisitine Nørtoft Kristensen:works on the species-level phylogenomics of the endemic Malagasy palm tribe Dyspidinae

BSc students:

August H. C. Søndergaard works on the species-level phylogenomics of the endemic Malagasy palm tribe Dyspidinae

Previous students/postdocs supervised by Wolf Eiserhardt:

Postdocs:

• Melanie Tietje
• Tom Carruthers
• Miao Sun

PhD students:

• Oscar B. Wrisberg, ”Exploring patterns of plant speciation using phylogenetic trees and global checklists of taxonomy and distribution” (2024)
• Peter Petoe, ”Species discovery and moography in two Malesian palm hotspots” (2025)
• Lars Emil S. F. Hansen, “Evolution within a Biodiversity Hotspot: Diversification and Distribution of the Palms of Madagascar” (2024)
• Michelangelo S. Moerland, “A phylogenomic study of Saxifraga (Saxifragaceae)” (2023)
• Pirada Sumanon, “Taxonomy, Phylogenomics and Biogeography of Maesa (Primulaceae)” (2022)
• Benedikt G. Kuhnhäuser, “Phylogenomics and biogeography of the calamoid palms” (2021) (main supervisor: William J Baker)

MSc students:

• Nina Hauvgaard Degn, “The Palms of Madagascar: Species distributions and the impact of functional traits” (2024)
• Josephine E. A. Connelly, “Soybean for the Future: Population Genetic Analysis of a Swedish Genebank Collection in Comparison to a Core Collection Pre-adapted to Cold Climate” (2023) – project at the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics
• Laura Kragh Frederiksen, ”Systematics and biogeography of the Cryptocarya group (Lauraceae)” (2023)
• Jeppe Therkildsen Madsen, ”Climate Changes and Saxifrages - Future developments for an arctic-alpine plant group” (2020)
• Alexander Venzel Rudbeck, "A map of phylogenetic knowledge: spatial barriers and bias in the Darwinian shortfall" (2020)
• Emil Muff Munk, "The importance of biome definition for quantifying plant species richness and phylogenetic composition in tropical rainforests" (2020)
• Maya Schrödl, "Colonization and diversification history of Madagascan palms with new phylogenomic evidence from the genus Orania (Arecaceae)" (2020)
• Matthew Jeffery, "From Lush Lowlands to the Roof of the World: Leaf Economics and Habitat Evolution in Saxifrages (Genus Saxifraga L.)" (2017)
• Michael Kröncke, "The effects of flowering phenology of Empetrum hermaphroditum on gene flow between subpopulations along snow cover gradients)" (2014)

BSc students:

• Trine Darchy Bodilsen, “Assigning palm species to biomes” (2024)
• Kristine Nørtoft Kristensen, “The effect of multi-copy genes on a phylogeny of Ceroxyloideae” (2023)
• Sarah Valentin, “Recovery of plastid DNA to investigate the backbone phylogeny of subtribe Dypsidinae” (2022)
• Josephine Connelly, "Phylogenetic analysis of Ravenea (tribe Ceroxyleae): A phylogenomic approach to species level tree estimation using target capture" (2019)
• Alexander Venzel Rudbeck, "Phylogenetic analysis of Vaccinieae with a particular focus on the polyphyletic genus Vaccinium" (2018)