Sami Domisch is a Leibniz Junior Research Group Leader at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Sami is interested in freshwater biodiversity with an emphasis on spatial biodiversity patterns, macroecology, and developing tools to assess freshwater biodiversity across large spatial scales.

The group uses a wide array of open-source tools for spatial biodiversity informatics such as R, GRASS, GDAL/OGR, pktools, OpenForis within the Linux environment.

Career

• since 2019 - Leibniz Junior Research Group Leader at Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
• 2016-2019 - Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Postdoc)
• 2013-2016 - Yale University, USA (Postdoctoral associate and DFG postdoctoral fellow)
• 2012-2013 - Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany (Postdoc)

Funding and awards

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Co-host for Dr. Torres-Cambas’ grant “Protecting the future of freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services across Cuba”
• Leibniz Association and IGB: Leibniz Junior Research Group “Global freshwater biodiversity, biogeography and conservation (GLOWABIO)” (J45/2018), started in 2019
• German Research Foundation (DFG): Co-PI for grant ‘Himalopsyche/QTP Region’ (DO 1880_3-2)
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF): Co-authored the proposal for grant ‘WANDEL’ (GROW-937-3583-018; Co-PIs: S. Jähnig, M. Pusch)
• German Research Foundation (DFG): 2-year Postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University, USA (DO 1880_1-1)
• EFFS-Award, subsidiary price for the best European PhD dissertation in freshwater science 2011-2012

Reviewer activities

• Member of Editorial Advisory Board: Limnologica, Global Change Biology (2014-2017)
• Funding agencies: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), GO-IN-Goethe International Post-Doc Programme (Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
• Journal referee: Aquatic Sciences, Biological Conservation, Biology Letters, Biological Invasions, Diversity & Distributions, Ecography, Ecohydrology, Ecological Applications, Ecological Engineering, Ecological Indicators, Ecological Modelling, Freshwater Biology, Freshwater Science, Fundamental and Applied Limnology (Guest Editor), Global Change Biology (Advisory Board member 2013-2017), Global Ecology and Conservation, Hydrobiologia, Integrative Zoology, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Environmental Management, Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, Limnetica, Limnologica, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Methods in Ecology & Evolution, Scientific Data, Scientific Reports, PLoS ONE, The Science of Nature, WIREs Climate Change