Thomas Tomiczek

Doctoral student
Interests
Biodiversity and Ecology Geo-informatics Environmental Education/Protection
Education
- MSc in Integrated Natural Resource Management, 2017-2020
Humboldt University, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften, Germany - BSc in Environmental and Resource Management, 2010-2013
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany
Thomas Tomiczek is a doctoral student at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB). Thomas is focusing on the spatial patterns of fish diversity and its contingencies on the stream network structure across South America.
Career
- 2023 - present - Doctoral student at IGB, funded through DFG
- 2022-2024 - Research associate at IGB, NFDI/DFG-funded
- 2020-2021 - Master thesis at IGB
- 2018-2018 - WWF - World Wide Fund For Nature, Berlin (Internship)
- 2015-2015 - Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, The Hague, Netherlands (Internship)
- 2013-2013 - Bachelor thesis at Helmholtz Institute, Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
Projects
Publications (5)
Reducing the global human footprint on lake water quality near river inlets (2026) · in revision
Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution (2026) · Earth System Science Data 2026, 1541–1559
The spatial discrepancy between Colombian freshwater fish suitable habitats and existing protected areas (2026) · Diversity and Distributions 32 (3), e70168
GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing (2024) · International Journal of Digital Earth, 2391033
hydrographr: an R package for scalable hydrographic data processing (2023) · Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14, 2953-2963
DOI Project R-package Installation SDM workflow Connectivity workflow Authors & details