Gabriele Gerlach

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Gabriele Gerlach (* before 1964) is a German biologist. She is the elected director of the Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg .

Gerlach studied biology at the University of Konstanz until 1986 and received his doctorate there in 1990 . Then she was managing director of the Swiss environmental company BiCon AG until 1994. Then she did research as a research associate and research group leader in behavioral and evolutionary biology at the University of Konstanz until her habilitation in 2001. From 2002 Gerlach worked as a scientist at the Marine Biology Institute (MBL) in Woods Hole (USA) and as an associate professor at the University of Boston ( UNITED STATES). In 2007 she followed a call to the University of Oldenburg.

In 2014 her doctoral program "IBR-Interdisciplinary Approach to Functional Biodiversity Research" was approved for funding by the state of Lower Saxony. The program aims to combine ecology, evolutionary biology and interdisciplinary approaches for the protection and management of biodiversity. The aim is to find out how biodiversity will change in the future.

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