PD Dr. Anja Linstädter

• 1988 – 1994
  Studied biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany
  
  

• 1995
  Visiting scientist, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge, UK
  
  

• 1995 – 2001
  Doctoral studies at the University of Cologne, Germany
  
  

• 2002 – 2003
  Postdoc at University of Cologne, Germany
  
  

• 2004 – 2007
  Independent Research Group Leader, Volkswagen Foundation Award: "Economic and ecological sustainability of pastoral land-use in Namibia", Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany
  
  

• Since 2007
  Research Group Leader, "Range Ecology and Management", Botanical Institute, University of Cologne, Germany
  
  

• 2007 – 2009
  PostDoc in the interdisciplinary project "Impetus", Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Germany
  
  

• 2009
  PostDoc in the Special Research Unit "Difference and Integration", Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig (Germany)
  
  

• 2010 – 2013
  PostDoc in the Research Group "Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in Social-Ecological Systems of East- and South Africa's Savannas", Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn
  
  

• Since 2011
  Senior Scientist in WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use), Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn
  
  

• Since 2015
  Lecturer at the Botanical Institute, University of Cologne
  
  

• Guuroh, R.T., Ruppert, J.C., Ferner, J., Čanak, K., Schmidtlein, S., Linstädter, A., 2018. Drivers of forage provision and erosion control in West African savannas – A macroecological perspective. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 251, 257-267

• Linstädter, A., Baumann, G., 2013. Abiotic and biotic recovery pathways of arid rangelands: lessons from the High Atlas Mountains, Morocco. CATENA 103, 3-15

• Linstädter, A., Schellberg, J., Brüser, K., Oomen, R.J., Du Preez, C.C., Ruppert, J.C., Ewert, F., 2014. Are there consistent grazing indicators in drylands? Testing plant functional types of various complexity in South Africa's grassland and savanna biomes. PLOS ONE 9, e104672

• Linstädter, A., Kuhn, A., Naumann, C., Rasch, S., Sandhage-Hofmann, A., Amelung, W., Jordaan, J., Du Preez, C.C., Bollig, M., 2016. Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: Lessons from a multi-disciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system. Ecology and Society 21, 35, 10.5751/ES-08737-210335.

• Ruppert, J.C., Harmoney, K., Henkin, Z. Snyman, H.A., Sternberg, M., Willms, W., Linstädter, A., 2014. Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime. Global Change Biology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12777

• LLL – Limpopo Living Landscapes

  WASCAL – West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use

  GCEF – Global Change Experimental Facility

• Referee for the Volkswagen Foundation, funding program "Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa"

• Speaker of the Working Group "Dryland Research" in the German Ecological Society (GfÖ)

• Contributing member of the EPES-BIOCOM Global Dryland Database

• Member of the DroughtNet Initiative (a global network to assess terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought)

• Partner of the "Global Change Experimental Facility" (GCEF), Bad Lauchstädt, coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UfZ) Leipzig/Halle (Germany)

• Press releases 2014:

• "Climate Change in Drylands -Ecologists from the University of Cologne are Analyzing Vegetation Stability during and after Droughts" (Press release of the University of Cologne, 19 November 2014)

  Link: http://www.portal.uni-koeln.de/nachricht+M5785719f08e.html

• "Socio-economic change more of a problem for nomads than climate change – Study on the impacts on livestock farming in arid regions" (Press release of the Helmholtz Centre of Environmental Research, UFZ Leipzig, from 15 July 2014)

  Link: http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=33025

Soft Skills

• Training in academic leadership skills (2013)

• Parental leaves (2000, 2003, 2010)

Other activities and achievements/family

• 3 children

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