Christina Hackmann

I graduated from the University of Münster with a B.Sc. (2017) and M.Sc. (2020) in Landscape Ecology, gaining a broad foundation in ecological knowledge. My interest in a scientific career grew during the master’s thesis, where I investigated tree water use in a boreal mixed forest in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Umeå. Back in Germany, I joined the lab of Prof. Dr. Christian Ammer at the University of Göttingen as a PhD student in 2021, becoming part of an interdisciplinary research training group (RTG2300 “EnriCo”) with focus on mixed-species forests. My PhD project investigated tree drought response and root water uptake depth under intra- and interspecific competition. My methodological approach combines different ecophysiological measurements, stable isotope analysis, and environmental data – a solid toolkit that I look forward to expanding and applying to my research questions within FoResLab. I have always enjoyed working in international and interdisciplinary environments. While focusing on tree-level ecophysiology, I am particularly interested in connections across scales, ecosystem compartments, and research fields.
Subproject 1 Tree Growth: The importance of the spatial arrangement of plant tissue for drought tolerance and growth of European beech.