Jasper Bathmann

Research Interests

Until my MSc, my research centered around the physics of morphogenesis of cells and tissues. In particular I was interested on the understanding of self-organizing processes taking place in living matter. Within my PhD I am interested in the below-ground interactions within mangrove populations. For this we develop a coupled groundwater-tree population model to investigate self-organization processes within mangrove forests.

Projects

• since 2018: MARZIPAN - Adopting mangrove vegetation zonation patterns to gain information on subsurface aquifer structures and advance below-ground plant competition concepts in individual-based modelling (German Research Foundation - DFG)
  Have a look at the MARZIPAN project in our research overview

Abridged CV

• Since 2018 PhD stutent at the UFZ Leipzig and the Institute of Forest Growth and Forest Computer Sciences in Tharandt
• 2017 MSc in theoretical Biophysics at Dresden University of Technology
• 2011 – 2017 Student of Physics at Dresden University of Technology

Publications

• Peters, R., Lovelock, C., López-Portillo, J., Bathmann, J., Wimmler, M.-C., Jiang, J., Walther, M., Berger, U. (2020). Partial canopy loss of mangrove trees: Mitigating water scarcity by physical adaptation and feedback on porewater salinity. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science: 106797.
• Bathmann, J., Peters, R., Naumov, D., Fischer, T., Berger, U., & Walther, M. (2020). The MANgrove – GroundwAter feedback model ( MANGA ) – Describing belowground competition based on first principles. Ecological Modelling, 420, 108973.
• Curran, S., Strandkvist, C., Bathmann, J., de Gennes, M., Kabla, A., Salbreux, G., Baum, B. (2017): Myosin II Controls Junction Fluctuations to Guide Epithelial Tissue Ordering. Developmental Cell 4, 480-492.e6.
• Werner, M., Bathmann, J., Baulin, V. A., Sommer, J.-U. (2017): Thermal Tunneling of Homopolymers through Amphiphilic Membranes. ACS Macro Letters 6, 3, 247-251.