Hello, I’m Friederike Wölke,
I am a PhD student in Plant Systematics and part of the Evolutionary Plant Biogeography group at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
🌿 I study evolution of plants from phylogenies (evolutionary family trees). My PhD is about reconstructing the origins and dynamics of major vegetation types in Madagascar using plant phylogenomics.
🔬 I combine field work, genomics, bioinformatics and evolutionary/biogeographical analyses in Bayesian frameworks to understand changes in vegetation types along evolutionary time scales. I combine spatial, morphological, genomic, and paleo-history data to investigate questions about trait evolution, ancestral biomes and areas, dispersal and colonization.