Tasnuva Ming Khan

Dr. Tasnuva Ming Khan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Paleontology, GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where she focuses on paleoecology and marine biodiversity using interdisciplinary methods. She completed her PhD in Zoology at the University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey (expected 2025) and holds an MSc in Geosciences (2021) from FAU.

• Education:
  • PhD Zoology (expected 2025) – University of Cambridge & British Antarctic Survey
  • MSc Geosciences (2021) – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • BSc Earth Systems Science (2018) – Cornell University

Research Interests include scale-dependent drivers of marine community structure, asymmetric range shifts in planktonic foraminifera under the AGELESS project, and the influence of colonial history/global economics on fossil record biases. Her work integrates Bayesian network inference, metacommunity theory, and spatial point process analyses to study modern and fossil marine ecosystems.

Key Publications cover topics like deep-sea benthic community dynamics in Antarctica, thermographic studies of humpback whales, and geothermal energy projects at Cornell. Her recent studies (2024–2025) focus on automated detection of Antarctic benthic organisms and environmental heterogeneity impacts on polar ecosystems.

Collaborations span institutions including University of Oxford, University of Colorado Boulder, and University of Washington, with affiliations in projects like Deep-time Ecology Group and AGELESS (Leveraging long-term planktonic diversity data for biodiversity protection in areas beyond national jurisdiction).