Dr. Boris Sakschewski

Current position

Postdoc at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Research Department I: Earth System Analysis, Earth Resilience in the Anthropocene (ERA) lab

Earth Commission - Quantifying the safe and just corridor for humanity

Researcher

2016 -2020 PostDoc Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Biodiversity Research University of Potsdam

Implementing functional diversity into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM). Investigating the role of functional diversity for the water cycle in the international research project CLIMAX.

2012 - 2016 PhD Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Biodiversity Research University of Potsdam

Implementing functional diversity into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM). Investigating the role of functional diversity for the carbon cycle in the international research project ROBIN.

Education

Oct. 2009 - Sep. 2012 M.Sc. Ecology, Evolution and Conservation, University of Potsdam, Germany

Oct. 2006 - Oct. 2010 B.Sc. Organismic Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany

PhD thesis:

"Major impacts of anthropogenic pressure on the terrestrial biosphere and its resilience to global change"

 Master thesis:

"New estimations of specific leaf area and leaf longevity relationship in the Amazon rainforest: improving functional diversity in LPJmL"