Determinants of Microbial Respiration and Biomass across Global Drylands
Wölke, F.J.R. (2019). Determinants of Microbial Respiration and Biomass across Global Drylands (unpublished bachelorthesis). University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
CV - Resume 2025
Personal Information
- Name: Friederike Johanna Rosa Wölke (she/her)
- Residency: Prague, Czech Republic
- Birth date: 10.02.1997 in Pforzheim, Germany
- Email: friederike.woelke@gmail.com (long-term)
- X (formerly twitter): @FriederikeWolke
- GitHub: @FriedaRosa
- ORCID
- ResearchGate
- GoogleScholar
- Personal Website
- Subjects: Biodiversity modelling, phylogenetics, macroevolution, macroecology, temporal change, spatial ecology
Education
- 2025: Starting Ph.D in Evolutionary Biogeography and Plant Systematics, Stockholm University, Sweden
- 2024: Science School on Quantitative Ecology, Charles University Prague & Bayreuth University (1 week)
- 2023: Starting Ph.D in Macroecology, Czech University of Life Sciences (terminated 2025)
- 2022: M.Sc. in Biodiversity, Ecology & Evolution (internat.), Leipzig University / iDiv
- 2022: Summer School in Island Biogeography and Macroecology (2 weeks)
- 2019: B.Sc. in Biology, Leipzig University / iDiv
Work experience
- 01/07/2025 - 30/09/2025: Research Technician
- Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
- Lab: https://ondrejmottl.github.io/lab/about_the_lab.html
- Tasks: Writing unit tests for R Package RRatepol
- PI: Ondřej Mottl
- 01/05/2024 - 01/08/2024: Field Botanist
- GRACE project: https://www.adamclarktheecologist.com/research/grace
- Czech University of Life Science, Prague, Czech Republic
- Modelling of Biodiversity Lab (MOBI); Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences
- Tasks: Establishing plots & sampling vegetation in grasslands along the Czech-Austrian border
- PIs: Ass. Prof. Adam T. Clark, Dr. Petr Keil
- 01/10/2023-31/07/2025: PhD Student
- Czech University of Life Science, Prague, Czech Republic
- Modelling of Biodiversity Lab (MOBI); Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences,
- Topic: Universal imprints of temporal change in static spatial patterns of biodiversity
- Funding: Funded by the European Union (ERC, BEAST, 101044740)
- Supervisor: Dr. Petr Keil
- 01/06/2023 - 31/08/2023: Research Assistant
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
- Evolution & Adaptation group (E&A)
- Tasks: Related evolution of armature in plants and megaherbivory in animals
- Supervisor(s): MSc. Rachel Souza-Ferreira & Dr. Renske Onstein
- 01/12/2022 - 30/05/2023: Research Assistant
- Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Halle, Germany
- Vegetation and Macroecology Group, Department of Community Ecology,
- Tasks: Literature research, InvaCost Plants
- Supervisor(s): Dr. Maryna Golivets, Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn
- 01/04/2022 - 30/08/2022: Research Assistant/Master Student
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
- Evolution & Adaptation group (E&A)
- Tasks: Field work at the tropical house of the Zoo Leipzig; Lab work with spectrometer, preparing RNA samples; Phylogenetic comparative methods
- Supervisor(s): Dr. Renske Onstein (& MSc. Andressa Cabral)
- 01/10/2019 – 30/03/2022: Research Assistant/Bachelor Student
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
- Experimental Interaction Ecology group (EIE)
- Tasks: Field work at MyDiv Experimental site, ECOTRON experimental facility; Lab work with soil samples, invertebrates
- Supervisor(s): Dr. Jes Hines, Dr. Olga Ferlian, Dr. Anja Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Nico Eisenhauer
- 24/06/2019 – 15/09/2019: Research Internship
- Universidad Catolica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile
- Biology, Ecology & Diversity of Invertebrates from Marine Environment (BEDIM)
- Tasks: Indentification and quantification of marine invertebrates from microplastics samples
- Supervisor(s): Prof. Dr. Martin Thiel & MSc. Camilla Gallardo
- 01/04/2018 – 30/09/2020: Student Assistant/Teaching Assistant
- Leipzig Herbarium & Leipzig University, Germany
- Molecular Evolution and Plant Systematics, Faculty of Life Sciences
- Tasks: Restoring old herbarium specimen (winter semester), teaching plant identification classes (summer semester)
- Supervisor(s): Dr. Peter Otto & Prof. Dr. Alexandra Müllner-Riehl
Skills
- R, Python, Markdown, Quarto, Git, LaTeX, Obsidian, Linux, HPC
- Languages:
- German (mother-tongue)
- English (C2, Cambridge Certificate)
- Spanish, French, Portuguese (not very fluid but would love to improve!)
- Czech (aiming at B1 for the end of 2024)
- Latin
- Field experience
- Soil sampling
- Plant sampling and identification
- Invertebrate sampling and identification (terrestrial and aquatic)
- Vegetation descriptions
- Lab experience
- soils, invertebrates, plant samples
- spectrometric measurements
- O2/CO2 measurement from soils
- basic genetic methods
- Advanced training (mostly during 2022/2023)
- Writing in the Sciences (MOOC, Standford University, 2022)
- Probability and Statistics: To p or not to p? (MOOC, University of London, 2022)
- Hands-on Introduction to Linux Commands and Shell Scripting (MOOC, IBM, 2022)
- Introduction to High-Performance and Parallel Computing (MOOC, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022)
- Learn to Program: The Fundamentals (MOOC, University of Toronto, 2022)
- Data Science and Math Skills (MOOC, Duke University, 2023)
- Plant Bioinformatic Methods (MOOC, University of Toronto, 2023)
- Data Visualization in R (MOOC, IBM, 2023)
- Data Visualization and Dashboarding in R (MOOC, Johns Hopkins University, 2023)
- Introduction to Software Engineering (MOOC, IBM, 2023)
- Introduction to maximum likelihood and Bayesian statistics for ecologists (3-day Workshop at CZU, Prague, 17-19.10.2023)
Publications
Fruit size evolution is shaped by divergent selective regimes related to disperser availability and habitat type in palms (Arecaceae)
Wölke, F.J.R. (2022).Fruit size evolution is shaped by divergent selective regimes related to disperser availability and habitat type in palms (Arecaceae) (unpublished masterthesis). University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Africa as an evolutionary arena for large fruits
Wölke, F.J.R., Cabral, A., Lim, J.Y., Kissling, W.D. and Onstein, R.E. (2023), Africa as an evolutionary arena for large fruits. New Phytol.
State of the Worlds Plants and Fungi Report 2023
Antonelli*, A., Fry*, C., Smith*, R.J., Eden*, J., Govaerts*, R.H.A., Kersey*, P., Nic Lughadha*, E., Onstein*, R.E., Simmonds*, M.S.J., Zizka*, A., Ackerman, J.D., Adams, V.M., Ainsworth, A.M., Albouy, C., Allen, A.P., Allen, S.P., Allio, R., Auld. T.D., Bachman, S.P., Baker, W.J., Barrett, R.L., Beaulieu, J.M., Bellot, S., Black, N., Boehnisch, G., Bogarín, D., Boyko, J.D., Brown, M.J.M., Budden, A., Bureš, P., Butt, N., Cabral, A., Cai, L., Cano, J.A., Chang, Y., Charitonidou, M., Chau, J.H., Cheek, M., Chomicki, G., Coiro, M., Colli-Silva, M., Condamine, F.L., Crayn, D.M., Cribb, P., Cuervo-Robayo, A.P., Dahlberg, A., Deklerck, V., Denelle, P., Dhanjal-Adams, K.L., Druzhinina, I., Eiserhardt, W.L., Elliott, T.L., Enquist, B.J., Escudero, M., Espinosa-Ruiz, S., Fay, M.F., Fernández, M., Flanagan, N.S., Forest, F., Fowler, R.M., Freiberg, M., Gallagher, R.V., Gaya, E., Gehrke, B., Gelwick, K., Grace, O.M., Granados Mendoza, C., Grenié, M., Groom, Q.J., Hackel, J., Hagen, E.R., Hágsater, E., Halley, J.M., Hu, A.-Q., Jaramillo, C., Kattge, J., Keith, D.A., Kirk, P., Kissling, W.D., Knapp, S., Kreft, H., Kuhnhäuser, B.G., Larridon, I., Leão, T.C.C., Leitch, I.J., Liimatainen, K., Lim, J.Y., Lucas, E., Lücking, R., Luján, M., Luo, A., Magallón, S., Maitner, B., Márquez-Corro, J.I., Martín-Bravo, S., Martins-Cunha, K., Mashau, A.C., Mauad, A.V., Maurin, O., Medina Lemos, R., Merow, C., Michelangeli, F.A., Mifsud, J.C.O., Mikryukov, V., Moat, J., Monro, A.K., Muasya, A.M., Mueller, G.M., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Nargar, K., Negrão, R., Nicolson, N., Niskanen, T., Oliveira Andrino, C., Olmstead, R.G., Ondo, I., Oses, L., Parra-Sánchez, E., Paton, A.J., Pellicer, J., Pellissier, L., Pennington, T.D., Pérez-Escobar, O.A., Phillips, C., Pironon, S., Possingham, H., Prance, G., Przelomska, N.A.S., Ramírez-Barahona, S.A., Renner, S.S., Rincon, M., Rivers, M.C., Rojas Andrés, B.M., RomeroSoler, K.J., Roque, N., Rzedowski, J., Sanmartín, I., Santamaría-Aguilar, D., Schellenberger Costa, D., Serpell, E., Seyfullah, L.J., Shah, T., Shen, X., Silvestro, D., Simpson, D.A., Šmarda, P., Šmerda, J., Smidt, E., Smith, S.A., Solano-Gomez, R., Sothers, C., Soto Gomez, M., Spalink, D., Sperotto, P., Sun, M., Suz, L.M., Svenning, J.-C., Taylor, A., Tedersoo, L., Tietje, M., Trekels, M., Tremblay, R.L., Turner, R., Vasconcelos, T., Veselý, P., Villanueva, B.S., Villaverde, T., Vorontsova, M.S., Walker, B.E., Wang, Z., Watson, M., Weigelt, P., Wenk, E.H., Westrip, J.R.S., Wilkinson, T., Willett, S.D., Wilson, K.L., Winter, M., Wirth, C., Wölke, F.J.R., Wright, I.J., Zedek, F., Zhigila, D.A., Zimmermann, N.E., Zuluaga, A., Zuntini, A.R. (2023). State of the Worlds Plants and Fungi 2023. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34885/wnwn-6s63
Predicting temporal change of species distributions from a single snapshot (preprint, v1)
Friederike Wölke, Gabriel Ortega Solís, Carmen Soria, et al. Predicting temporal change of species distributions from a single snapshot. Authorea. October 24, 2024.DOI: 10.22541/au.172978475.51624422/v1
Spatial autocorrelation of species diversity and distributions in time and across spatial scales (preprint)
Soria, C.D., Ortega, G.R., Wolke, F.J., Bartak, V., Tschernosterova, K., Bejcek, V., Herrando, S., Mikulas, I., Stastny, K., Ueta, M., Vorisek, P. & Keil, P., 2025. Spatial autocorrelation of species diversity and distributions in time and across spatial scales. bioRxiv, 2025-06.
The complex interaction between megaherbivores, climate and fire has shaped the evolution and distribution of plant spinescence across biogeographical realms (preprint)
Souza Ferreira, R., Ringelberg, J., Hughes, C., Arle, E., Wölke, F.J.R., Tomlinson, K., Onstein, R.E. (2025), The complex interaction between megaherbivores, climate and fire has shaped the evolution and distribution of plant spinescence across biogeographical realms (preprint)
Talks
Talk 1: Adaptive vs. neutral processes in the evolution of fruit sizes
Talk at iDiv Conference, Leipzig, online
Talk 2: Africa as an evolurionary Arena for Large Fruits
Talk at GfÖ Conference 2023, Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Talk 3: Africa as an evolutionary arena for large fruits
Talk at International Biogeography Conference, Prague, Congress Center, Prague, Czech Republic
Poster 1: Towards predicting temporal biodiversity changes from static patterns
Poster at GfÖ Macroecology Meeting, Marburg, Marburg, Germany
Poster 2: Africa as an Evolutionary Arena for large fruits
Poster at GfÖ Plant Population Biology Meeting (POPBIO), Prague, Czech Republic
- Further (un-referenced talks):
- Invided guest talk by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Brose, @Biodiversity Theory group, iDiv
Teaching
- Further (un-referenced) teaching experience:
- 2023: multiple Workshops on identification of biodiversty (plants, invertebrates, tracks) for volunteers of the lower nature conservation agency, City of Leipzig
- 2021, 2022, 2023: Lecture and practical on Phylogenetic Comparative Methods for MSc students during course “Macroecology and Macroevolution under global change” (Uni Leipzig)
- 2022: Fruit sampling of tropical plants for phylogenetic analyses, Tropical house of the Zoo Leipzig, iDiv Summer School
Awards & Funding
- 2024-2025: InternalGrant Agency - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: 1-year research project funding: ‘Towards predicting temporal trends in biodiversity change from static patterns’
- 2023-2027: ERC Grant ‘BEAST’awarded to Dr. Petr Keil: 4-year funding for my PhD research in ‘BiodivErsity dynamics Across a continuum of Space, Time, and their scales’
- 2020-2021: DAAD-PROMOS scholarship to increase mobility of german university students: Funding for field work campaigne in Madagascar (cancelled because of Covid)
- 2019: DAAD-RISE scholarship for research internships abroad: funding for 3 month stay in Coquimbo, Chile (June-September 2019)
Service and leadership
- Volunteer for the lower nature conservation agency, City of Leipzig
- Member of a community-run agriculture