Gabriele Gerlach

Gabriele Gerlach is a Professor at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg since 2007, affiliated with the Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences and leading the Department of Biodiversity and Evolution of Animals. She also serves as an Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (USA) and an Adjunct Professor at the Boston University Marine Program.

• Education: Ph.D. (1990) and Habilitation (2000) in Zoology and Ecology at the University of Constance, Germany.
• Research Interests: Biodiversity, evolutionary biology, and ecology combined with mathematical approaches. Her work focuses on operator theory, spectral analysis, and dynamical systems applied to biological and environmental questions.
• Publications: Recent contributions include mathematical frameworks for kernel operators, transition semigroups, and spectral convergence, bridging abstract analysis with computational biology.