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Department of Ecology

Ecosystem Science

Rothenburgstrasse 12

12165, Berlin

Germany

greg.planchuelo[at]gmail.com

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• ResearchGate 

• 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. 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. 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. Sustainability 11, 6318.
• Planchuelo, G., von der Lippe, M., Kowarik, I. (2019). Untangling the role of urban ecosystems as habitats for endangered plant species. 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." Acta Oecologica.

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