Research Area
Diana joined COMI as a Postdoctoral researcher in 2018 to investigate the effects of climate change and land use on soil microbiomes. Through her research on plant-soil microbiomes Diana aims to understand the effect of key fungal and bacterial communities on plant diversity and soil health under climate change ( https://www.susalps.de ). As microbial ecologist her vision is to disentangle environment–microbe-microbe-plant interactions in order to support strategies for diversity conservation and ecological management of fragile ecosystems. Thus, her work will contribute at longer term to human health by reducing the impact of ecosystem managements and climate change effects which are well known to reduce biodiversity and increase pathogen antibiotic resistance, which lead to emergent diseases for humans.