Research Groups
IBZ Professors and Group Leaders:
- Prof. Jake Alexander
- Prof. Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Global Ecosystem Ecology
- Prof. Jukka Jokela
- Prof. Alex Hall
- Prof. Janneke Hille Ris Lambers
- Dr. Daisy Dent
external page Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- Prof. Rolf Holderegger
- Prof. Jukka Jokela
- Prof. Monika Maurhofer
Plant Pathology
- Prof. Megan McDonald appointed by 1 May 2026
- Prof. Mark Mescher
Theoretical Immunology and Microbiology
- Prof. Roland Regoes
external page Pathogen Evolution
- Prof. Barbora Trubenová
external page Food Web Ecophysiology
- Prof. Lily Twining
- Prof. Greg Velicer
external page Evolutionary Ecology
- Prof. Christoph Vorburger
- Prof. Alex Widmer
- Dr. Diana Santelia (Senior Scientist)
Research Centres
Former Professors
- Prof. Thomas Crowther - external page Global Ecosystem Ecology
- Prof. Bruce McDonald - Plant Pathology
- Prof. Ottmar Holdenrieder / Dr. Thomas Sieber – Forest Pathology and Dendrology
- Prof. Adrian Leuchtmann – Biosystematik
- Prof. Jonathan Levine – external page Plant Ecology
- Prof. Paul Schmid-Hempel – Experimental Ecology
- Prof. Yuko Ulrich – Experimental Epidemiology
- Prof. Joshua Payne - Computational Ecology