Rachel Schiebel
Chair for Terrestrial Ecology
Department for Life Science Systems
TUM School of Life Sciences
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
D-85350 Freising-Weihenstephan
Room: 1.3.1.8
E-mail: rachel.schiebel[at]tum.de
Curriculum vitae
| 2025- | present | Ph.D. candidate at the Assistant Professorship of Forest and Agroforest Systems and the Chair of Terrestrial Ecology, Technical University of Munich, Project: CitySoundscapes |
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| 2020- | 2025 | M.Sc. Conservation and Landscape Planning, Technical University of Munich |
| 2011- | 2015 | B.Sc. Natural Resource Conservation, University of British Columbia |
Research interest
I’m interested in ecological research that informs conservation-driven city and landscape planning. My current focus is on urban ecosystems and understanding how local green and grey characteristics in cities affect bird communities. If planned accordingly, cities have the potential to host a high diversity and abundance of birds, which in turn benefits humans both mentally and physically through interactions with green spaces. I’m using a combination of terrestrial laser scanning and remote sensing data to derive vegetation characteristics such as structure, composition and complexity, as well as characteristics of the built environment such as imperviousness and building type. To assess bird species diversity and community composition I use bioacoustics and AI.