Last week, on October 6-8, Mariana and Isabel visited Anne in Gothenburg to work on the resubmission of a funding application to the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks 2025 call. This ambitious grant would fund a cohort of 14 doctoral candidates to work on borealization-related research. In addition to many NordBorN researchers this grant also involves the participation of many non-academic partners.
We are happy to welcome our new PhD researchers, Charlotte Wagner and Hans Meinhard à Eyðansstovu!
Charlotte began her PhD in October at the Agricultural University of Iceland. She has a degree in agricultural engineering with a specialisation in ecology and conservation of natural environments, which she obtained at the Institut Agro Dijon in France. Her PhD project aims to investigate how coexisting wild (reindeer, pink-footed goose) and domestic(sheep) herbivores partition food resource across different ecological and management context. To better understand the interspecific relationships and identify potential competition between these herbivores, she will describe their diet composition and quality, as well as the availability of food resources to provide tools for grazing management.
Hans Meinhard recently started his PhD at the NTNU University Museum in Trondheim. He got his bachelor in Biological Ecology at the University of the Faroe Islands, after which he went on to take a masters in Biodiversity and Systematics (NABiS) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He’s interested in the flora of Nordic, Arctic and Alpine regions where his main research interests are within Invasion Biology, Systematics and Biogeography. In his PhD work, Hans Meinhard is working on a project uncovering the genomic secrets behind the invasion of Barbarea vulgaris, an alien species in the Arctic.
The 2025 meeting of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was held last 29 September to 3 October 2025 in Nordens Ark, a wildlife park dedicated to the conservation of endangered species in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Several NordBorN researchers participated in the meeting, including Mariana Garcia Criado, who presented her recently published paper on plant borealization across the Arctic. Alejandro Salazar presented his work on biocrust-plant interactions at an ITEX site in Iceland.
