Juliane Helm

Juliane Helm is a Doctoral Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, and an external PhD student at the University of Basel’s Physiological Plant Ecology Group. Her research focuses on plant allocation strategies, particularly tree respiration dynamics, carbon cycling, and gas exchange mechanisms in stems and roots. She holds an M.Sc. in Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics (FSU Jena) and a B.Sc. in Biology (FSU Jena).

Her work combines field studies with advanced modeling to explore how trees allocate resources under stress, such as starvation or environmental shifts. Key contributions include developing low-cost gas flux measurement tools and investigating carbon storage mechanisms in mature beech and poplar trees. She has conducted research stays at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (Netherlands) and worked at Eurofins Agraranalytik Deutschland GmbH.

Her publications emphasize stem CO₂/O₂ flux interactions, metabolic pathways in stressed trees, and ecosystem carbon dynamics. While no awards are explicitly listed, her research has implications for understanding climate resilience in forest ecosystems.