In the upcoming semester I will be contributing to the lecture series “Die gehegte Natur – eine transkulturelle Gartengeschichte” with a talk on the history of gardens from the perspective of bees. My talk will take place on 18 July 2024 from 18:00 c.t. – 20:00 hours in HS 1015. I look forward to seeing…
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Back from Lund, Sweden
Last week, I returned to Freiburg from Lund, Sweden, where I have spent the last 5 months as a guest researcher at Lund University. It was a pleasure to work in the highly interdisciplinary research environments of BECC and CEC during my sabbatical. → read BECC article on my experiences as guest researcher During my…
Action week “Wunderwelt Natur Herrenberg”
The action week “Wunderwelt Natur Herrenberg” will take place from 12 – 21 April 2024 in Herrenberg, Baden-Württemberg. One of the main aims of the event is to raise awareness of the decline in biodiversity at a local level and to give recommendations for biodiversity-enhancing changes in gardens, on balconies and meadows. I will contribute…
A Field Guide to Urban Plants
Julia Krohmer’s and my book “Das wächst in deiner Stadt” was published last year. I am pleased to announce that the English language version “A Field Guide to Urban Plants” will be available this summer and can already be preordered: https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/alexandra-maria-klein/products/a-field-guide-to-urban-plants Publisher’s decription: Have you ever wondered exactly what those ‘weeds’ are growing along the…
Job opportunities at our lab
We are looking for a full-time laboratory technician to start on 1 April 2024. The position is permanent with a remuneration according to TV-L up to max. E9a if the personal requirements are met. Your tasks: Your profile: We offer: To apply for this job, please visit https://uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/jobs/00003544/ Other open positions at our lab: https://www.nature.uni-freiburg.de/Open%20Pos/Open%20Pos?set_language=en
RestPoll kick-off meeting
28-29 November 2023, Grand Hotel, Lund, Sweden Our new EU Horizon project RestPoll (Restoring pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches) was launched in October 2023. I really enjoyed meeting the RestPoll members in person at the kick-off meeting in Lund, Sweden, and discussing our next steps in the project. The…
Visiting professorship at Lund University
Currently I am a visiting professor at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University, Sweden. I arrived in Sweden in November 2023 and will stay until April 2024 and look forward to working with the researchers at Lund University and forming new collaborations.
RestPoll Press Release
I am excited that the website for our new EU project RestPoll is now available: https://restpoll.eu/ We also published our first press release to introduce the project: These are our RestPoll social media channels: BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/restpoll.bsky.social
Auf #Krautschau gegen Pflanzenblindheit: Urbane Vielfalt zum Niederknien
27 October 2023, 14:00, Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt We walk past them every day, usually without seeing them: Yet there is an amazing diversity of flowering plants, grasses and lichens in our cities. They literally grow everywhere – between paving stones, in cracks in the asphalt and on the curbs. Today we want to take a…
Media reports on our BfN project “Golf Sustainable” (GolfBiodivers)
NDR and Badische Zeitung have recently published articles about our BfN project Golf Sustainable that started in April 2023. The project is funded within the Federal Programme for Biological Diversity by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation with resources from the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. To assess…