Room: 203

Department of Ecology

Ecosystem Science

Rothenburgstrasse 12

12165, Berlin

Germany

greg.planchuelo[at]gmail.com

• Google Scholar [2]
• ResearchGate [3] 

• September 2020 - March 2021
  Research traineeship at the EU institution EMCDDA in Lisbon, Portugal. Policy-oriented research on public health.
• 2019 - 2020
  Scientific reviewer for PLOS ONE.
• 2014 - 2019
  Doctor in urban ecology from the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Advisors: Prof. Dr. Ingo Kowarik and Dr. Moritz von der Lippe. Awarded with grants from the Hans Böckler Stiftung and the DAAD.
• 2017 and 2018
  Invited speaker at Ingo Kowarik’s Master’s course “Perspectives in Ecology" at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
• 2013 - 2016
  Co-founder of PANGO Ecosystems, an environmental consulting non-profit to promote sustainable urban solutions in Madrid, Spain.
• 2011 - 2016
  Research on the dispersal of urban invasive species at the Department of Ecology of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain. Advisor: Dr. Juan Antonio Delgado.
• 2007 - 2013
  Diplom in biology (equivalent to Master’s / Licenciatura), specialising in environmental sciences and ecology. Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
• 2009 - 2010
  Erasmus scholarship at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France.  

• I have various research interests in topics ranging from urban ecology and ecosystem services to sustainability and climate change. I believe designing creative solutions to environmental and social challenges has the potential to improve the quality of life of millions of people worldwide.

• Planchuelo, G., Kowarik, I., & von der Lippe, M. (2020). Endangered plants in novel urban ecosystems are filtered by strategy type and dispersal syndrome, not by spatial dependence on natural remnants. [4]Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 18.
• Planchuelo, G. Kowarik, I., von der Lippe, M. (2020). Plant traits, biotopes and urbanization dynamics explain the survival of endangered urban plant populations [5]. Journal of Applied Ecology
• Kowarik, I., Hiller, A., Planchuelo, G., Seitz, B., von der Lippe, M., Buchholz S. (2019).  Emerging urban forests: opportunities for promoting the wild side of the urban green infrastructure [6]. Sustainability 11, 6318.
• Planchuelo, G., von der Lippe, M., Kowarik, I. (2019). Untangling the role of urban ecosystems as habitats for endangered plant species [7]. Landscape and Urban Planning 189: 320-334.
• Planchuelo, G., et al. (2016). "Gone with the wind and the stream: Dispersal in the invasive species Ailanthus altissima." [8] Acta Oecologica.

• Planchuelo, G., et al. (2016). "Estimating wind dispersal potential in Ailanthus altissima: The need to consider the three-dimensional structure of samaras." [9] Plant Biosystems.