Friederike Gebert
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
I am a research fellow in invertebrate ecology with the TEE lab. Before joining here, I completed my PhD on dung beetles and mammals on Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Afterwards, I made an excursion to temperate ecology and worked as a postdoc at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL where I analysed data on temporal trends of aquatic and terrestrial insects in Switzerland. Now, I am excited to return to the tropical realm and to my favourite group of study organisms: dung beetles! I am especially interested in the factors determining dung beetle distributions, functional traits, dung beetle ecosystem service provisioning and their interplay with mammals. I am also very interested in tropical mountain ecology. I am looking forward to exciting projects to come, including dung beetle phylogeny and field work on Borneo!
In my free time, I am into hiking, digital art and playing table tennis. My favourite tea is chai latte.