Kort præsentation

Mona Chor Bjørn har en PhD grad i Anvendt Økologi og forsker i plante- og plantesamfundsøkologi med fokus på diversificering og restaurering af græslandsvegetation. Hun har en særlig interesse i genopretning, transformation og forvaltning af urteagtige vegetationstyper for at støtte hjemmehørende flora og fauna samt modvirke tab af biodiversitet og negative effekter af urbanisering.

En central del af hendes forskning omhandler økologi og habitatspecialisering hos hjemmehørende arter samt deres funktion i natur- og bymiljøer. De seneste otte år har hun især forsket i naturbaserede løsninger (Lokal afledning af regnvand) og udviklet ny viden om, hvordan disse kan optimeres som levesteder for planter og dyr i byer.

Gennem undervisning og vejledning af studerende bidrager hun til bachelor‑ og kandidatundervisning inden for landskabsarkitektur, naturforvaltning og biologi.

CV

Education

2018 - 2019     University Paedagogy (Adjunkt Pædagogikum, UP)

2009 – 2015    PhD degree in Applied Ecology, University of Copenhagen 

Interesseområder

Biodiversity; Botany; Plant Ecology; Plant community Ecology; Flora-fauna interactions; Green infrastructure, Innovation, Management, Restoration Ecology

Aktuel forskning

• Optimix - Bedre frøblandinger til naturprojekter i kulturlandskabet (PI, Grant from GBHF)
• Branching Out (PI, Research-based agency support)
• Regenerative Landscapes (Scientific partner, Research-based agency support)
• Urban biodiversity: Nesting hills and grassland diversification (PI, Financial support from Ballerup Municipality)
• Floating vegetated Islands for biodiversity support and phytoremediation of polluted storm water (PI, Grant from MUDP)
• Floating vegetated Islands for stormwater management (PI, Grant from VUDP)
• Holistic SUDS Bio-curbs - innovation and documentation of pollutant removal, hydrology, evaporation and biodiversity (PI, Grant from MUDP)
• Tree bodyguards (Scientific partner)
• Science Club (Scientific partner, Grant from The Veloux Foundations)
• Noice barriers; case Ballerup (Scientific partner, Grant from GBHF)
• Cover crops – low resource requiring management of the young forest (PI, Grant from GBHF)
• Optimising ecosystem services and recreational values of low maintenance SUDS in urban environments (PI, Grant from VUDP)
• EcoOrchard (scientific participant, botanical expert)
• Protectfruit (scientific participant, botanical expert)
• Sustainable and innovative methods for supporting biodiversity on fertile and productive soils. Research in habitat restoration techniques and genetic variation in commercially available seeds and their wild relatives. (PI, Grant from 15. Juni Fonden)
• Full PhD stipend (PI, Grant from University of Copenhagen)  

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

Course resposibilities and coordination

•  Biodiversity in Urban Nature (MSc, UCPH, 7.5 ECTS)

Teaching

• Biodiversity in Urban Nature (MSc, UCPH, 7.5 ECTS)
• Nature Management and Biodiversity (BSc, UCPH, 7.5 ECTS)
• Planting Design (BSc, UCPH, 7.5 ECTS)
• Practice & Aesthetics in Landscape Architecture (BSc, UCPH, 15 ECTS)
• Plants and Technology in Landscape Architecture 1 (BSc, 15 ECTS)
• Plants and plant growth in urban areas (BSc, 15 ECTS)
• Botany of Urban and Landscape Plants (BSc, 7.5 ECTS)

Supervision: Thesis, Project in Practice, Project Outside Cou​rse Scope.

BSc-programmes: Biology, Landscape Architecture, Natural Resources 

MSc-programmes: Biology, Climate Change, EnvEuro, Environmental Science, Forest and Nature Management, Landscape Architecture, Nature Management

Sprogkundskaber

Danish, English, German, French