Diplom-Umweltwissenschaftlerin

Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change

Departments of Geosciences and Economics

Hamburg University

Germany

Kerstin Jantke's research interests are interdisciplinary and cover conservation biology, systematic conservation planning, and ecological economics. She works with ecologic-economical models, applied to the analysis of biodiversity conservation under land use and climate change. She developed the HABITAT model, a reserve selection tool for European wetland biodiversity conservation.

Beginning in December 2005, Kerstin was associated with the European Commission FP6 projects European Non-Food Agriculture (ENFA) and Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging (GEOBENE) and the FP7 project A European approach to GEOSS (EuroGEOSS).

She did her PhD on the topic Systematic conservation planning in Europe - the case of wetland biodiversity at the Research Unit Sustainability and Global Change, University of Hamburg as well as under the framework of the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling.

After completing her PhD in 2011, Kerstin held a Postdoc position in the cluster of excellence Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction (CliSAP) flexible pool project Wetland Preservation Potentials under Climate Change.

Since May 2013, Kerstin is a Postdoc Fellow in the Postdoc-Kolleg "Sustainable Future". Her current research focuses on the potentials of European wetland ecosystems as sinks of carbon and sources of biological diversity.

Kerstin holds a diploma in environmental sciences from the University of Lüneburg. She specialized in ecology, nature conservation, and environmental planning.