Institut for Biologi

Aarhus Universitets segl

PEB group

Members of the Plant Evolution and Biodiversity group

Wolf Eiserhardt

Lektor
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H 1137, 224
P +4527782857

Wolf L. Eiserhardt

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

I am a botanist trained at the universities of Hamburg (Germany) and Aarhus (Denmark). Now I am an Associate Professor at Aarhus University, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK). I am broadly interested in the evolution and geographic distribution of plant diversity, and study these subjects mostly using phylogenomics and spatial statistics. I have a special interest in places with very high plant diversity, such as the Cape of South Africa, tropical rainforests, or mountains. The plant group I know most about are the palms (Arecaceae).

Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID

Staff page at Aarhus University (incl. short CV)

Twitter: @w_eiserhardt

                      

Paola De Lima Ferreira

Postdoc
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H 1137, 215

Paola De Lima Ferreira

POSTDOC

Paola works on species-level phylogenomics and diversification history of the palm family.

Staff page at Aarhus University:

                      

Hanchen Shuai

Lønnet ph.d-stipendiat
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H 1137

Hanchen Shuai

RESEARCH FELLOW

Hanchen works on the ecological and evolutionary drivers of species ranges and their size in palms

Staff page at Aarhus University

                      

Oscar Balslev Wrisberg

Ph.d.-studerende
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H 1137, 223

Oscar Wrisberg

PHD STUDENT

I am a PhD student at Aarhus University, interested in the distribution of biodiversity spatially and across the tree of life. Currently, I am working on explaining the hyperdiversity of plants in tropical rainforests using two different approaches as a part of the TropiTol project. First, I am working on a species level phylogeny of Coryphoideae, a subfamily of Arecaceae, in order to uncover the evolutionary history of this ecologically important tropical rainforest model group. Secondly, I am investigating the macroecological drivers of tropical rainforest hyperdiversity on a global scale by combining massive distribution and phylogenetic datasets spanning the plant tree of life in conjunction with climate datasets in an ecoinformatic framework.

Twitter: @WrisbergOscar

                      

Peter Petoe

Ph.d.-studerende
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Peter Petoe

PHD STUDENT

Peter works on his PhD titled Discovering and monographing the palms of Malesian biodiversity hotspots

Staff page at Aarhus University.

            

Malin Camilla Håkansson

Laborant
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H 1135, 221
P +4560202666

Camilla Håkansson

LAB TECHNICIAN

Camilla is in charge of our phylogenomics work in the lab

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

Alumni

Previous students/postdocs supervised by Wolf Eiserhardt:

Postdocs:

PhD students:

  • 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)
Revideret 24.02.2025
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Anne Kirstine Mehlsen