Dr. rer. nat. Layla Engelhardt

Scientist

CV

Layla Engelhardt studied physical geography with specialization on biogeography and ecology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. In 2016, she wrote her Bachelor thesis at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center (SBiK-F) in the Research Group Biodiversity and Ecosystem Ecology of Prof. Dr. Thomas Hickler. She evaluated biomass data of the LPJ-GUESS model in German forests with forest inventory data. Afterwards she started her master studies in Forest Science and Forest ecology at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. During her master’s degree she got a scholarship to spend a semester abroad at the Ilia State University, Tibilisi, Georgia. In her master thesis she worked on leaf traits differences of Sequoia sempervirens origins and their CO₂ assimilation response during frost experiments. Since 2019, she first worked as a PhD student in the department studying interactions between phenols and plant matrices under thermal processing, and since 2023, she has been working as a postdoc on phenols in carbohydrate-rich foods.

Degrees

2023 Dr. rer. nat. in Agrarwissenschaften, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2019 M. Sc. Forest Science and Forest Ecology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2016 B. Sc. Physical Geography, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Classes Taught

Grundlagen der Forstbotanik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Spezielle Methoden der Qualitätsbeurteilung, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Übungen zur Produktqualität pflanzlicher Erzeugnisse, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
Exercise on the Quality of Tropical and Subtropical Plant Products, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Areas of Expertise

Secondary plant metabolites
Antioxidant activity
Food processing effects on plant quality
Biotic and abiotic stress factors
Biogeography and Ecology