Our team is continuously growing and changing, with new students joining each field season!

University of Vienna

Agnes S. Dellinger (PI)
César Augusto Arvelos (PhD student)
Andrea Errante (PhD student)
Fabian Polz (technical assistant)
Juliane Nazari-Montazer (MSc student, Ecuador 2025)
Isabella Fresner (MSc student, Borneo 2026)
Julian Gericke (MSc student, Borneo 2026)
Philipp Weber (MSc student, Ecuador 2026)
Gregor Traun (former student assistant, Madagascar 2025)
Isadora Skudeny (former student assistant, Borneo 2025)
Imran Sadovic (former student assistant, Borneo 2025)

University of Uberlândia

Vinícius Lourenço Garciade Brito (collaborator)
João Pedro Santos Pereira (field assistant, Brazil 2025)
Carlos Andres Matallana Puerto (field assistant, Brazil 2025)
Marcela Camila Oliveira Arata (field assistant, Brazil 2025)
Leidy Kelly (field assistant, Brazil 2026)
Marcela Andresse Sponchiado (field assistant, Brazil 2026)

University of Malaysia

Florina Anthony (collaborator)
Yek Sze Huei (collaborator)
Christabelle Eugenie Damasus (field assistant, Borneo 2025)
Chen Hong (field assistant, Borneo 2026)

University of Antanarivo

Harisoa Ravaomanalina (collaborator)
Lalaina Ramiliarisona (PhD student)
Richard Dominique Randriatsitohaina (PhD student)

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

Diana Fernández-Fernández (collaborator)
Madelén Quistial (field assistant, MSc student, Ecuador 2025)
Juan Carlos (field assistant, MSc student, Ecuador 2025)

California Academy of Sciences

Frank Almeda (collaborator)
Heritiana S. Ranarivelo (collaborator)

University of Florida

Lucas Majure (collaborator)

New York Botanical Garden

Fabián Michelangeli (collaborator)

LM University of Munich

Alexander Keller (collaborator)

Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurth

Marie Claire Veranso-Libalah (collaborator)