Dr Katalin Csilléry
Leader of the Evolutionary Genetics Group
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology Research Unit
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Email: katalin[dot]csillery[at]wsl[dot]ch
Tel: +41 (0) 44 739 2343
Camilla Stefanini
PhD student, population genomics
2022-2026
Adaptation during range expansion in European beech (MyGardenOfTrees)
Azzurra Pistone
PhD student, spatial statistics, population genetics
2023-2027
Eco-evolutionary data fusion approaches to predict the evolutionary potential of European and Oriental fir species (Abies spp.) facing climate change (MyGardenOfTrees)
Yves Niederer
BSc student, University of Zurich, Biodiversity
2025-2026
The role of competition and facilitation in forest regeneration (MyGardenOfTrees)
Past members
Dr Leo Zeitler, Post-doc, 2024-2025
MyGardenOfTrees climate chamber trials
Dr Justine Charlet de Sauvage, Post-doc, 2024-2025
MyGardenOfTrees pilot trials
Dr Nicole Ponta, Project coordinator and deputy group leader, 2021-2024 and again 2025-2026
Development and management of the participant network in MyGardenOfTrees and more....!
Dr Ariane Mora, Postdoc, computational biology, 2023
Species classification pipeline from remote sensing data
Dr Yohann Chauvier, Postdoc, macrogenetics, 2022-2023
Exploring the GenDivRange database for testing evolutionary hypothesis about species ranges
Jani Mitreski, Exchange MSc student from the University of Skopje, Macedonia, 2022, 2 months
Seed extraction for MyGardenOfTrees, exploring ways of automating seed processing
Adrian Kölz, Internship, 2022 summer & autumn
Field assistant for MyGardenOfTrees & RemHybridMon
Dr Petra D'Odorico, Senior scientist, remote sensing, 2021 - 2022
RemHybridMon: Tracing hybridization of oriental beech following assisted gene flow: combining high-throughput genomics, remote sensing and machine learning
Haonan Yang, Internship & Research assistant, 2021 - 2022, 6 and 6 months
Development of the R Shiny interface for GenDivRange & database management for MyGardenOfTrees
Johannes Alt, MSc student (ETH Zurich), 2021-2022
Estimating the germination rate in commercial seed lots of European beech and silver fir
Beatriz Pablo Carmona, Internship, 2021 6 months
Field and lab assistant for MyGardenOfTrees and RemHybridMon