Jessica Berasategui

Jessica Berasategui is a Researcher and Data Scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), affiliated with the Faculty of Biology and the Department of Systematics, Biodiversity & Evolution of Plants. She works under the supervision of Prof. Kadereit, focusing on the evolution and ecology of C4 photosynthesis in succulent dicots, including climatic preferences and evolutionary changes in C4 gene regulation.

• Collaborations: Dr. Anja Schmidt (COS, Heidelberg), Dr. Maximilian Lauterbach (University of Perth), Dr. Alexander Zizka (iDiv Leipzig).

Her research integrates ecological and molecular approaches to understand adaptive mechanisms in plants, particularly under climate-related pressures. No specific grants or awards are listed, but her work is publicly accessible via ResearchGate and ORCID.