Külheim Laboratory

I grew up in Mainz, Germany, where I went to high-school and started my undergraduate degree in Biology. In 1999, I went on an international exchange year to Umea University, Sweden. I enjoyed the University culture, people and climate so much that I decided to stay. I finished my undergraduate degree and did my PhD there in Plant Molecular Biology, studying short-term light adaptation in photosynthesis. After a two year postdoc at the University of British Columbia, Canada, I moved to Canberra, Australia where I started to investigate how genetic differences affect variation in plant secondary metabolites. In 2018, I moved to my current position as Associate Professor in Forest Genetics at Michigan Technological University. My research focus is on environmental adaptation in deciduous trees.