About
Kim Lea Holzmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. She obtained her BSc in Biology from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and completed the Erasmus Mundus Master of Evolution (MEME), an international double-degree programme where she studied at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (Germany), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany), Uppsala University (Sweden), and the University of Arizona (USA). She completed her PhD at the University of Würzburg in 2025, investigating patterns and drivers of insect diversity along a tropical elevational gradient in the Peruvian Andes.
Her research focuses on the response of organisms to climate change, in particular how environmental variation shapes biodiversity. Combining fieldwork along tropical elevational gradients with experimental approaches, she investigates insect thermal tolerances and their vulnerability to global warming. Her research interests further include evolutionary adaptation of arthropods to cave ecosystems.
Courses
- A primer in Ecology