Florian Hartig

Curriculum vitae

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Positions

2026 – now
Full Professor (W3) for Theoretical Ecology University of Regensburg
  • Head of the Professorship for Theoretical Ecology (Theoretical Ecology Group)
  • Interim head of the Chair for Plant Ecology
  • Deputy Dean of Research, Faculty of Biology and Preclinical Medicine
  • Coordinator and head of the examination committee, MSc Ecology, Evolution & Conservation (EEC)
2016 – 2026
W2 Professor for Theoretical Ecology University of Regensburg
2012 – 2016
Lecturer University of FreiburgIn the group of Prof. Carsten Dormann
2009 – 2012
Postdoctoral fellow Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig

Education

2006 – 2009
Dr. rer. nat., Department of Mathematics/Computer Science Osnabrück University (2009); research at UFZ LeipzigThesis: Metapopulations, Markets and the Individual
2004 – 2005
MSc in Physics (Theoretical Particle Physics) Department of Theoretical Physics, Uppsala University, Sweden
2001 – 2006
Studies in Physics Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2000 – 2001
Civilian service Naturschutzzentrum HessenHessian Academy for Environmental Protection

Projects and third-party funding

Current projects
2
Completed
8

Counted from the project list below.

  • BaySenseAI 2026–2030 · Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts (bayklif2) A multi-modal AI platform integrating remote sensing and field data to predict biodiversity across Bavaria at high spatial and temporal resolution.
  • DHARMa 2024–2027 · Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, project no. 528747641) Increasing the validity of statistical analyses with the R package DHARMa.
  • sCOM 2021–2022 An iDiv/sDiv working group on advancing statistical inference for eDNA and other novel, high-throughput community data.
  • REFORCE 2017–2020 An EU ERA-NET project (REsilience mechanisms for risk-adapted FORest management under Climate changE) on the mechanisms underlying forest resilience to climate change and on evaluating regionally adapted management strategies.
  • FORMASAM 2018–2020 A European Forest Institute network (FORest MAnagement Scenarios for Adaptation and Mitigation) developing forest-management scenarios, consistent from stand to continental scale, for climate mitigation and adaptation across Europe.
  • CONNECT 2014–2020 A DFG-funded theory and modelling project within the Biodiversity Exploratories, Germany’s long-term land-use and biodiversity research platform.
  • sELDiG 2017–2018 An iDiv/sDiv working group synthesising explanations for the latitudinal diversity gradient through data-driven, mechanistic eco-evolutionary modelling; see Pontarp et al. (2019).
  • PROFOUND 2014–2018 EU COST Action FP1304, which produced the PROFOUND database for benchmarking European forest models; Florian Hartig led working group 3 and was a Management Committee member for Germany; see ProfoundData and Reyer et al. (2020).
  • BLIZ A bayklif research network studying interactions between society, land use, ecosystem services and biodiversity in Bavaria through to 2100, via integrated modelling across six coordinated subprojects; Florian Hartig led subproject 5.
  • DAAD Connecting models of diversification to phylogenetic data, a DAAD-funded collaboration with Hélène Morlon (ENS Paris).

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