Plant Sciences Master Students

Salome Klingenstein

s.klingenstein@stud.unibas.ch

Research Interests

  • Physiological plant ecology
  • Stable Isotopes
  • Climate change

Education

8/2023 - ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland

9/2018 - 6/2023: B.Sc. in Biology, Major in Plant and Animal Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland

Simon Grichting

simon.grichting@stud.unibas.ch

Research Interests:

  • Physiological plant ecology
  • Climate change
  • Tree physiology

Education

9/2023 – ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. Master Thesis supervised by Dr. Richard L. Peters

9/2019 - 6/2023: B. Sc. in Biology, Major in Plant and Animal Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland

Sophie

sophie.froehlicher@unibas.ch

Research Interests:

  • Tree-physiology
  • Climate change

Education

9/2024 – ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. Master Thesis supervised by Günter Hoch

9/2020 - 6/2024: B. Sc. in Biology, Major in Plant and Animal Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland

Nathalie Schaffner

nathalie.schaffner@stud.unibas.ch

Research Interests:

  • Physiological Plant Ecology
  • Stable Isotope

Education:

2/2025 - ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland

8/2021 - 1/2025: BSc in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Science, University of Basel, Switzerland

 

Stella Schober
stella.schober@stud.unibas.ch

Research interests

- Tree Physiology 
- Stable Isotopes
- Dehydration Resistance 

Education

05/2025 - ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland 
10/2020-11/2024: B.Sc. in Biology, Major in Physiology at the University of Ulm, Germany 

Marina Zurmühle

marina.zurmuehle@stud.unibas.ch

Research Interests

  • Plant Diversity
  • Seed Morphology
  • Plant Systematics

Education

09/2025 – ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. Master thesis supervised by PD Dr. Jurriaan M. de Vos.

09/2020 – 06/2025: BSc in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Science, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Noemi Teresa Behner

noemi.behner@stud.unibas.ch

Research interests:

  • Ecophysiology
  • Tree physiology
  • Climate change

Education:

09/2025 - ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. Master Thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Günter Hoch
 

09/2022 – 06/2025: BSc in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Science, University of Basel, Switzerland

Felix Hain

Research Interests:

  • Bird Ecology
  • Stable Isotopes
  • Global Change

Education:

09/2025 – ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. In collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Institute (Vogelwarte Sempach).

09/2022 – 07/2025: BSc in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Science, University of Basel, Switzerland

Janik-Joel Bühler

Research Interests:

  • Bird Migration
  • Stable Isotopes
  • Global Change

Education:

09/2025 – ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. In collaboration with the Swiss Ornithological Institute (Vogelwarte Sempach).

09/2022 – 07/2025: BSc in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Science, University of Basel, Switzerland.

David Meier

Research Interests:

  • Plant Reproductive Strategies and Phenology
  • Role of Plant Functional Traits in Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Effects of Climate Change

Education:

09/2025: Master at the Physiological Plant Ecology group. In collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. Under direct supervision of Prof. Dr. Günter Hoch and Dr. Daniel Scherrer.

09/2022 – 07/2025: BSc in Biology, Major in Animal and Plant Science, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Leonie Weber

Research Interests:

  • Physiological plant ecology
  • Climate change
  • Evolutionary adaptation

 

Education:

  • 09/2025 – ongoing: Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. Master Thesis supervised by Ansgar Kahmen
  • 09/2021 – 07/2025: Bachelor of Science in Biology, Minors in Ecology and Biochemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Camilla Ghezzi

camilla.ghezzi@stud.unibas.ch 

Research Interests

  • Tree physiology- Physiological plant ecology
  • Climate change 

Education 

  • 9/2025 - ongoing: 
    Master at the PPE group of Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen, University of Basel, Switzerland. 
    Master Thesis supervised by Dr. Frederik Baumgarten
  • 9/2022 - 7/2025: BSc in Natural Sciences, University of Florence, Italy. 
    Bachelor Thesis supervised by Dr. Prof. Cristina Gonnelli
     
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