BioMove is a joint project of the University of Potsdam (UP) together with Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF).

3.9 year PostDoc position in Ecological Modelling within BioMove and 3 year PhD/PostDoc positions in Statistical Movement Ecology within MoveUp are now closed!

Animal tracking with automated telemetry ATLAS

Scientists from the Berlin Brandenburg area (GRK BioMove, University of Potsdam, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research IZW, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research ZALF, Free University Berlin) use the latest automated radio-telemetry system developed by the working groups of Sivan Toledo (Tel Aviv University) and Ran Nathan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) to track animals in agricultural landscapes in Northern Germany. Goals include briding biodiversity research and movement ecology and identifying fine scale interactions of individuals. We thank our partners from TAU and HUJI and our local supporters from the Uckermark.

BioMove Retreat 2019

Congratulations to Gabriele Kowalski who successfully defended her thesis on 1st of November 2019!

Dr. Gabriele Kowalski with her supervisors Prof. Jana Eccard and Prof. Volker Grimm and members of the examination board..

Congratulations to Merlin Schäfer who successfully defended her thesis on 24th of October!

Dr. Merlin Schäfer with her supervisor Prof. Florian Jeltsch and her ZALF supervisor Dr. Marina Müller.

Congratulations to Cédric Scherer who successfully defended his thesis on 23th of October!

Dr. Cédric Scherer with the examination board including his supervisors Prof. Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, Prof. Volker Grimm, PD Dr. Niels Blaum.

Congratulations to Sissi Donna Lozada Gobilard who successfully defended her thesis on 16th of October!

Dr. Sissi Donna Lozada Gobilard with the the examination board including her supervisors Prof. Jasmin Joshi and Prof. Ralph Tiedemann.

Congratulations to Gabriele Schiro who successfully defended his thesis on 16th of July!

Dr. Gabriele Schiro with his supervisor Dr. Marina Müller

Congratulations to Annika Schirmer who successfully defended her thesis on 8th of July!

Dr. Annika Schirmer with her supervisors Dr. Melanie Dammhahn and Prof. Jana Eccard

Congratulations to Manuel Röleke who successfully defended his thesis on 12th of June!

Dr. Manuel Röleke with his supervisor Prof. Christian Voigt.

Congratulations to Lisa Teckentrup who successfully defended her thesis on 28th of May!

Dr. Lisa Teckentrup with her supervisors Prof. Stephanie Kramer-Schadt and Prof. Florian Jeltsch.

Congratulations to Pierluigi Colangeli who successfully defended his thesis on 21th of March!

Dr. Pierluigi Colangeli

Congratulations to Wiebke Ullmann who successfully defended her thesis on 12th of March!

Dr. Wiebke Ullmann with her supervisors PD Dr. Niels Blaum and Prof. Stephanie Kramer-Schadt

Congratulations to Sebastian Hausmann who successfully defended his thesis on 25th of January!

BioMove PhD Sebastian Hausmann with his supervisor Prof Matthias Rillig.

Welcome to our new PhD students of the 2nd Cohort! [more]

BioMove Kick-Off 2018

We thank all our guests that contributed to our first BioMove Symposium - it was a great success!

26th – 28th September 2018 @ Fraunhofer Conference Center in Potsdam

Learn more on our website

3 year Postdoc position linked to BioMove is now closed!

Award for BioMove PhD student!

Congratulations to Pierluigi Colangeli who was awarded for the best student talks during the XV International Rotifer Symposium, June 3 - 9 2018, held at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA.

The application for our new PhD cohort is now closed!

New Science paper with contributions from BioMove!

Mammals move less in human-modified landscapes.
On average, mammals move distances two to three times shorter in human-modified landscapes than they do in the wild. These findings have been published today by an international team lead by researchers at the Senckenberg Nature Research Society and Goethe University Frankfurt in the journal Science. Three BioMove researchers are members of this international team. It is the first time this topic has been examined at a global scale and for many different species at once. The authors highlight that these results may have far reaching consequences for ecosystems and in turn, for society.

Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

Marlee A. Tucker et. al. 2018, Science 26 Jan 2018 : 466-469

(see http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aam9712)