Michelle Greve
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Introduction | I am a PhD student in the Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity Group at Aarhus University in Denmark. I grew up in South Africa, which provided ample opportunities for developing an interest in the natural environment. After school I therefore went on to study ecology at Stellenbosch University. When I had completed my undergraduate training, I joined Prof. Steven Chown's research group. It was here that I developed a passion for biogeography. I first did a project on the distribution patterns of organisms across Southern Ocean Islands, with a focus on nestedness patterns. Subsequently, for my Masters project, I shifted to working on body size patterns of birds across South Africa, and also compared bird assemblages in natural and agricultural landscapes. I am currently based at Aarhus University in Denmark, where I am doing a PhD on the relationship between the environment and vegetation patterns in Africa under the supervision of Jens-Christian Svenning and Anne Mette Lykke. The project is mainly bioinformatic in nature and, coming from a biological background, I find myself constantly challenged to learn new methods and approaches for analyzing my data. |