Dr. Sandra Müller

Dr Sandra Müller (Institute of Biology/Geobotany, University of Freiburg). Since 2014, Müller has been working as a postdoc at the Institute of Biology/Geobotany at the University of Freiburg/Br. in the research group of Prof. Dr Michael Scherer-Lorenzen on relationships between factors of global change–such as land use change–and their effects on biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems. Through her involvement in the BEsound project of the DFG ‘Biodiversity Exploratory’ programme, which investigated the relationships between land use intensity, organism diversity and acoustic complexity, she became an expert in ecoacoustics, an emerging field that brings together aspects of landscape ecology, psychoacoustics, bioacoustics and acoustic ecology. She was then part of the Europe-wide Biodiversa Dr Forest project, which investigated the effects of forest biodiversity on human health. She focussed on the relationships between tree species diversity and the acoustic diversity of forests. Sandra Müller is currently working with colleagues from the Thünen Institute in Eberswalde and the Animal Sound Archive of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin on a feasibility study to integrate acoustic monitoring into the national forest monitoring programme (Akwamo).

Source: University of Potsdam (2025)