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Nadja Pernat

Current affiliations

Professorship for Animal Ecology (Prof. Buchholz)
Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research and Applied Ecology (CIBRA)

0000-0003-2244-1002

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Citizen Science, image-based trait analysis (secondary data), Ecological novelty, Urban ecology, Biodiversity literacy

Academic Education
01/2019 - 12/2021	Doctoral candidate at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg and 2021 Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin
10/2001 - 10/2006	Diploma in Biology at the Ruhr University, Bochum
10/1999 - 10/2001	Undergraduate in Statistics, Technical University, Dortmund
Work Experience
since 06/2022	Visiting scientists in the Ecological Novelty group (Prof. Jonathan M. Jeschke) at the Institute for Biology, Freie Universität Berlin
since 03/2022	Postdoc at the Animal Ecology Lab (Prof. Sascha Buchholz), Institute of Landscape Ecology, WWU Münster
01/2019 - 12/2021	Praedoc in the (Semi)aquatic biodiversity group at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
10/2017 - 12/2018	Technical staff at the (Semi)aquatic biodiversity group at Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
11/2016 - 05/2018	Chief Operations Officer at IMAGINARY gGmbH, Berlin
10/2015 - 08/2016	Assistant Content Developer at the Science Museum, London, UK
08/2008 - 05/2015	Research Assistant / Science Communicator / International Project Manager at the Max Planck Society Administrative Headquarters, Munich and Berlin
01/2007 - 07/2008	Editorial Trainee / Editor for Didactics in Biology, Stark Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich
Functions and Memberships
since 04/2022	Managing Director, Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research and Applied Ecology (CIBRA), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
since 06/2021	Member, Mitglied, Citizen Science Association (CSA)
since 06/2019	Member, Museum for Natural History in Berlin, European Citizen Science Association (ECSA)

Publications

Overcoming biodiversity blindness: Secondary data in primary citizen science observations Pernat, Nadja; Canavan, Susan; Golivets, Marina; Hillaert, Jasmijn; Itescu, Yuval; Jarić, Ivan, Mann, Hjalte M. R., Pipek, Pavel, Preda, Cristina, Richardson, David M.; Teixeira, Heliana; Vaz, Ana Sofia; Groom, Quentin (2024) In: Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 5 Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Urbanization reduces Orthoptera diversity and changes community structure towards mobile species Pernat, Nadja; Buchholz, Sascha; Schirmel, Jens (2024) In: Insect Conservation and Diversity, 17(2) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Birds of Berlin: Changes in communities and guilds in the urban park “Tiergarten” since 1850 Felgentreff, Esther; Pernat, Nadja; Buchholz, Sascha (2024) In: Ecology and Evolution, 14(5) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
Extracting secondary data from citizen science images reveals host flower preferences of the Mexican grass-carrying wasp Isodontia mexicana in its native and introduced ranges Pernat, Nadja; Memedemin, Daniyar; August, Tom; Preda, Cristina; Reyserhove, Lien; Schirmel, Jens; Groom, Quentin (2024) In: Ecology and Evolution, 14(6) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)
You are what you eat – The influence of polyphagic and monophagic diet on the flight performance of bees Krüger, Jula-Klarissa; Buchholz, Sascha; Schmitt, Sophie; Blankenhaus, Katharina; Pernat, Nadja; Ott, David; Hollens-Kuhr, Hilke (2024) In: Ecology and Evolution, 14(9) Type of Publication: Research article (journal)

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