Biologist Thilo Gross appointed

Prof. Dr. Thilo Gross has been appointed to the joint Professorship for Biodiversity Theory of the university’s Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI).

In this capacity he conducts research at the University of Oldenburg’s Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB). Prior to this position he was a professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis (USA). After holding posts in Potsdam and at Princeton University, USA, he headed a research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden. From 2011 to 2018 Gross worked at the University of Bristol, England, before taking up the post at the University of California, Davis. Gross applies approaches from network and data science to ecosystem modelling. The aim of his research is to enhance understanding of the relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functions.