Solveig Franziska Bucher is a postdoc working on the interactions between plant phenology and plant functional traits as well as their variation and species specific changes throughout the year. She studied for Biology (Diploma) at the University of Hohenheim where she graduated in 2011, and received her PhD from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena in 2017 for her thesis on the topic “Ecophysiological and Phenological Adaptations of Plants to Climate Change”. She is member of the Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) and vice-speaker of the special interest group Population Biology.