Eva Mayr-Stihl Endowed Chair for Forest Phytopathobiomes filled: Welcome to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Chhana Ullah

The new Eva Mayr-Stihl Endowed Professorship for Forest Phytopathobiomes has been filled: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Chhana Ullah will head one of five new professorships on the topic of “Forests in the Anthropocene.” After completing his studies in Bangladesh, Ullah earned a master's degree in nematology at Ghent University before moving to the MPI for Chemical Ecology in Jena, where he successfully completed his doctorate in 2018 on the topic of chemical defense mechanisms against fungi in forest tree species. Until his move to Göttingen, he was employed at the MPI as project group leader for “Chemical Ecology of Plant-Pathogen Interactions.”