We are happy to welcome our new PhD researchers, Charlotte Wagner and Hans Meinhard í 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.
