I develop tools and workflows to increase reproducibility in research. Phylogenetic relationships of species are important if we want to study the diversification of lineages and the relations to ecological niches, biogeography and traits. I developed a tool to automatically update alignments based on custom sampling strategies. Colleagues and me also developed a python tool to easily and automatic update phylogenies using OpenTreeOfLife. Currently under development are workflows to analyze the climatic conditions of areas.

Workflow of PhylUp

A new form of analysis method to understand the dynamics of diversification within the tropical alpine was developed during my Afroalpine dating project.

Besides, I have extensively using, testing and expanding usablity of a set of scripts developed by T. Fer and wrote a guideline on how to handle target enrichment data for recent radiations.

Workflow on how to handle genomic data of recent radiations

More recently, at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F) I have been part of BIOfid, a DFG-funded specialised information service that mobilizes biodiversity data locked away in historical and current German-language literature. BIOfid uses text mining and natural language processing to turn digitized 19th- and 20th-century publications on birds, butterflies, and vascular plants into structured, searchable data, in collaboration with the University Library and the text-technology group at Goethe University Frankfurt.