Data, tools and metrics
Theme 1 assesses the biodiversity data requirements and infrastructure-needs of stakeholders, and collaborates with IAPB and TNFD to devise principles of high integrity and effectiveness.
Theme Leader: Professor Franziska Schrodt
Franziska is Professor of Earth System Science at the University of Nottingham. Her interdisciplinary research combines ecology, statistical modelling, and AI to investigate biodiversity patterns and ecosystem processes under global change. She leads international working groups on causal inference in bio- and geodiversity dynamics, trait-based ecological approaches, and exploring novel data sources for ecosystem state and health analyses. Her collaborations span academia, NGOs, and intergovernmental bodies, and she has contributed to high-impact regional and global biodiversity and geodiversity assessments, with publications in journals including Nature, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, and PNAS. Before joining Nottingham, Franziska held research fellowships at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (DE), and a lectureship at the University of Brighton (UK). At Nottingham, she teaches ecological theory and advanced environmental data science, alongside environmental leadership and management, and supervises interdisciplinary doctoral projects. A strong advocate of open and reproducible science, she actively engages public, private, and policy audiences to translate complex Earth system research into decision-ready evidence.