student and staff alumni & Thesis students
Graduated Masters students:
Lucia Lincke, Master Ecological Engineering, (2025) “Impact of drought stress on a native wildflower mixture: effects on survival, growth, and flowering under varying species diversity”
Annika Arndt, Master Ecological Engineering (2024), “Hitzeinseln und Stadtoasen: die Methodenkombination Photovoice und partizipatives GIS in der gesundheitsorientierten Klimaanpassung mit Jugendlichen”
Tobias Bahlmann, Master Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning, (2024) “An Investigation of the Relationship between Vegetation Structure, Soundscapes and Bird Diversity in Urban Environments”
Ying Huang, Master Sustainable Resource Management, (2024) “Influence of organic amendments on hydrostructural properties and microbial activity of Constructed Technosols: using for stormwater management”
Eva Scherr, Master Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning (2023), “Vegetation diversity in traditional orchard meadows”
Michael Hemauer, Master Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning, (2023), “Effects of different environmental parameters on bird diversity on urban green spaces in Munich”
Yannik Hecher, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2022), “The relationships among woody vegetation diversity, structure and city resident perceptions across urban green space gradients”
Jorge Benitez, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2023), “The impact of urban gardening on soil health - Munich as a study case”
Anna Heindl, Master Epidemiology (2023), “One Health & the City: The role of public green spaces for human wellbeing”
Veronica Sebald, Master Ecological Engineering (2023), “The effects of plant abundance, diversity, and environmental factors on insect populations in urban gardens in the German cities Berlin and Munich”
Janine Opitz, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2023), “Cultivating tree nut species in urban gardens in Germany: motivations and challenges”
Hien Nguyen, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2023), “Forest change mapping in central Vietnam from 1988 to 2022 using Landsat time-series data”
Claudio Caci, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2022), “Integration of Mycelium-Based Packaging and Food in Bavaria: An Exploratory Feasibility Study”
Alejandra Valderrama, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2023), “Soil decomposition in urban community gardens”
Christian Lanfranchi, Master Sustainable Resource Management (2022), “Assessing the cooling potential and response to environmental stress factors of contrasting urban tree species along an urbanization gradient”
Graduated Bachelors students:
Richard Folger, Bachelor Forest Science and Resource Management (2025), “Ecosystem Services of Trees and Shrubs in Munich’s Community Gardens: Contributions to Pollination Support and Carbon Sequestration in Urban Areas”
Jonathan Blachnitzky, Bachelor Agrarwissenschaften und Gartenbauwissenschaften (2025) “Cavity-nesting Hymenoptera: Community structure and effects on reproduction in urban community gardens with a focus on wild bees (Anthophila)”
Hannah Thomas, Bachelor Engineering (2024) “Designing Resilient Urban Green Spaces: Evaluating Water Consumption and Restorative Effects in Urban Landscapes”
Juliana Hein, Bachelor Gartenbau (2024) “Waldgärten im Kontext nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft: eine vergleichende Studie agroforstlicher Systeme”
Anne Katrin Behrens, Bachelor Biosciences (2023), “Bumble bee diversity in urban community gardens”
Ilja Schoenheinz, Bachelor Biosciences (2023), „Effects of urbanization factors on cavity nesting Hymenopterans in urban gardens”
Vanessa Zahl, Bachelor Gartenbau auf Lehramt (2022), „Pesticide use and perceptions in allotment gardens in Munich“
Denis Mandic, Bachelor Brewing Science and Technology, (2023), “Vertical Farming – The agricultural (R)evolution?”
Phoebe Koppendorfer, Bachelor Biosciences (2022), “Seasonal variation of flower visiting arthropod orders in urban gardens: A comparison between two sampling methods”
Bigna Abderhalden, Bachelor Landscape Architecture and landscape Planning (2021), “Pollinators in peri-urban and rural orchards and gardens”
Researchers:
Dr. Elie Hanna, Dr. Aaron Sexton, Dr. Julia Schmack
Research assistants:
Felix Conitz, Michael Hemauer, Christian Lanfranchi, Hien Nguyen, Nina Schäle, Veronica Sebald, Sebastian Speth, Hannah Thomas, Evrim Yilmaz
Visiting researchers:
Olivia Maddox (Drexel University), Aanchal Thapa (Rice University), Francisco Tomatis (University of Valladolid), Amanda Machado (University of São Paulo)
Important partnerships include (but not limited to):
Plant-Insect-Interactions Group, Technical University of Munich (Sara Leonhardt)
Forest and Agroforestry Systems, Technical University of Munich (Peter Annighöfer)
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin: Ulrike Sturm, Susan Karlebowski and Martin Tscholl
Institut für Landschaftsplanung und Ökologie, U Stuttgart: Leonie Fischer’s research group
URBNANCE Research Group, Leibnitz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung: Martina Artmann’s research group
BUGS team: Stacy Philpott (UC Santa Cruz), Brenda Lin (CSIRO), Shalene Jha (UT Austin), Heidi Liere (U Seattle), Peter Bichier (UC Santa Cruz), Hamutahl Cohen (UC Riverside)
Australian Urban Agriculture Research Network: Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley, Pauline Marsh, Brenda Lin, Lucy Keniger, Aisling Bailey, Emily Foenander, Tonia Gray, Danielle Tracey, Philip Pettitt, Jeremy Addison, Heather Johnstone, Kate Neale, Tyler King, Teresa Capetola, Dave Kendal, Rebecca Patrick, Sonia Nuttman, Claire Henderson-Wilson, Chris Reed, Niki Frantzeskaki, Sara Barron, Claire Hetzel, Alessandro Ossola, Rosie Welch
Healthy Landscapes Research Group (U Tasmania Hobart): Dave Kendal, Emily Flies, Caragh Threlfall, Pauline Marsh, Jason Byrne, Penelope Jones, Menna Jones, and others
