Meet the HQ Team

Prof. Yvonne Buckley

Yvonne is one of the founding members of PLANTPOPNET. Professor of Zoology at Trinity College Dublin, Yvonne leads a team of post-doctoral researchers, PhD, and undergraduate research students seeking to understand the fundamental drivers of animal and plant population processes in a rapidly changing world. Her primary expertise is in comparative plant population dynamics, invasive plant management and predicting responses of populations to global change. 

Yvonne has taken a step back from coordinating PLANTPOPNET as she takes up a new role as co-director of the Climate+ Biodiversity and Water Co-Centre, and will continue at PLANTPOPNET as the founding chair.

Dr Anna-Mária Csergő

Anna is an associate professor at the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She was involved with setting up the network as a Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Yvonne Buckley, and is a PI of three contributor sites, as well as leader and member in several add-on projects. Currently, Anna leads the management board of PLANTPOPNET. This work encompasses add-on proposal evaluations, data management, communication with site Principal Investigators and network governance matters.

Dr Maude Baudraz 

Maude Baudraz is a former PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She works at the intersect between the concept of niche and plant demography, trying to unravel the patterns and drivers of within species variations in demographic rates. She has used PLANTPOPNET data in her work, and also completed her own experimental set up in the Swiss Alps. 

Aoife Molloy (Research Assistant)

Aoife is the curator of the PLANTPOPNET database and has assisted on PLANTPOPNET fieldwork and data collection. Aoife is the point of contact for any enquiries (molloya5@tcd.ie).