Dr SVEN BATKE

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    PhD projects

    1) Crop improvement
    2) The Honduran Fern Flora Project
    2) Epiphyte ecology

    20122023

    Research activity per year

    Personal profile

    Biography

    I joined Edge Hill University in 2017 as Lecturer in Biology. In 2015 I received my PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. After that I became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under the mentorship of Prof. Jennifer McElwain at the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, where I supported her team as an ecophysiologist and data analyst on a €1.6M Science Foundation Ireland funded research project. Some of my work included running multiple physiological plant growth chamber experiments at the UCD Programme for Experimental Atmospheres and Climate (Péac) facility and the analysis of physiological data from Community Land Model simulations. In 2016 I secured an Irish Research Council Fellowship to investigate how increases in atmospheric CO2 will alter water-relations in tropical epiphytes in the future. Since I started at EHU, I have been working on crop improvement, conservation ecology, plant taxonomy and climate change modelling. 

    Research interests

    My general research interests include crop sciences, plant ecology, taxonomy and physiology, climate modelling and global change. 

    Teaching

    I am currently teaching on the following modules:

    • Biodiversity 
    • Biology in Practice
    • Research Methods
    • Plant Physiology 
    • Canopy Biology 
    • Plant Diversity 
    • Plants and People
    • Research Dissertation 
    • Restoration & Conservation Planning

    Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

    In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

    • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    • SDG 13 - Climate Action
    • SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    • SDG 15 - Life on Land

    Education/Academic qualification

    Plant Ecology , PhD, Trinity College Dublin

    Wildlife Conservation , BSc, University of Plymouth

    Other positions

    Research Associate, Zamorano University

    16 Apr 2019 → …

    Keywords

    • QK Botany
    • Climate Change
    • Ecology
    • Taxonomy
    • Physiology
    • Conservation
    • Epiphytes
    • Crops

    Research Groups

    • SustainNET

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