HOTSPOTS is a multi-site Marie Curie Early Stage Training Network (EST) supported by the European Commission. The project funds nine Early-Stage Researchers, each based in one of the partner institutions of the HOTSPOTS consortium. The researchers are enrolled in a EuroPhD programme, comprising PhD research, summer schools (UK and Africa), university training modules (France, Switzerland, Germany) and training in complementary skills.
The HOTSPOTS project undertakes research that will provide an ecological and evolutionary understanding of biodiversity in the most species-rich areas on Earth, testing the validity of hotspots across a range of organisms and establishing the causes of the uneven distribution of biodiversity across the globe.
HOTSPOTS students
Lena Brüstle (University of Helsinki)
Susanne Fritz (Imperial College London)
Benjamin Isambert (Natural History Museum London and Imperial College London)
Dorothea Pio (University of Lausanne)
Andrew Rodrigues (University Montpellier II)
Jan Schnitzler (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Imperial College London)
Joeri Strijk (University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III))
Luis Valente (Royal Botanic Garden Madrid)
Catherine Vogler (University of Göttingen)
