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Technical University of Munich

Dr. Janika Kerner

Postdoctoral researcher & project coordinator

Room: 1.1.1.15.1
janika.kerner[at]tum.de

Tel.: +49 (0) 8161-714736

Research interests:

  • Effects of climate and land use change on insects and specifically on life-history traits of butterflies
  • Elevational gradients as model system to predict effects of global warming on insects, plants and ecosystem functions
  • Effects of forest managment in the Alps on insect communities

Current research projects:

Center for Alpine Forest Management

Vita:

since 04/2026Postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship for Conservation Biology, University of Regensburg
since 02/2026Coordinator of the Center for Alpine Forest Management and postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship of Ecoclimatology, Technical University of Munich
08/2025Lecturer for the module “Alpine Ecology” at the Department for Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoo III), University of Wuerzburg
05/2025-08/2025Freelancer for butterfly monitoring in the Bavarian Alps and Prealps
10/2023-03/2025Postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoo III), University of Wuerzburg
01/2019-11/2023PhD at the Department for Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoo III), University of Wuerzburg - Doctoral thesis: “The impact of climate change on alpine insects, examining butterflies as indicator group”
10/2016-01/2019M.Sc. Environmental Planning and Ecological Engineering, Technical University of Munich - Master thesis: "Determining factors for local fragmentation patterns of the South American tropical rainforest using the example of Sumaco Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador" 
10/2011-09/2016B.Sc. Landscape Architecture and Planning, Technical University of Munich - Bachelor thesis: "Sukzession naturnaher Kalkmagerrasen in der regulierten Aue der Oberen Isar und Überprüfung von Beweidung als Pflegemaßnahme"
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