Prof. Dr. Lisa Hülsmann
Group leader
Room C6, Dr. Hans-Frisch-Str. 1-3, 95448 Bayreuth
Room 109, GEO II, Campus University of Bayreuth
Email: lisa.huelsmann@uni-bayreuth.de
Phone: +49-921 / 55 5650
Research interests
- Forest ecology
- Tree demography
- Quantitative ecology
- Ecological modeling
- Data science
Selected Publications
Hülsmann L, Chisholm RA, Comita L, Visser MD, . . . Hartig F (2024). Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities. Nature. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07118-4.
Leite MdS, McMahon SM, Prado PI, Davies SJ, . . . Hülsmann L (2024). Major axes of variation in tree demography across global forests. Ecography 2024(6): e07187. doi: 10.1111/ecog.07187.
Heiland L, Kunstler G, Šebeň V & Hülsmann L (2023). Which demographic processes control competitive equilibria? Bayesian calibration of a size-structured forest population model. Ecology and Evolution 13(7): e10232. doi: 10.1002/ece3.10232.
Heiland L, Kunstler G, Ruiz‐Benito P, Buras A, . . . Hülsmann L (2022). Divergent occurrences of juvenile and adult trees are explained by both environmental change and ontogenetic effects. Ecography 2022(3). doi: 10.1111/ecog.06042.
Hülsmann L, Bugmann H, Cailleret M & Brang P (2018). How to kill a tree: empirical mortality models for 18 species and their performance in a dynamic forest model. Ecological Applications 28(2): 522-540. doi: 10.1002/eap.1668.
CV
2021 – present, Professor of Ecosystem Analysis and Simulation, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2018 – 2023, Junior research group leader within the Bavarian Climate Research Network (bayklif), Germany
2017 – 2018, Akademische Rätin, Theoretical Ecology Lab with Prof. Dr. Florian Hartig, University of Regensburg, Germany
2016 – 2017, Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
2012 – 2016, PhD in Forest Ecology, ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
Other activites
Data editor for The American Naturalist
Vice director of the Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER
Steering committee member of the Institute of African Studies
PI of the Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple
Member of the Bayreuth Center for High Performance Computing BZHPC
Member of the Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER
Speaker of Scientists for Future Bayreuth