Dr. Cieraad is a quantitative ecologist, and guest researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University. She studies the effects of human activities on plant ecophysiology, communities, and plant-herbivore interactions. She combines data from lab experiments, field studies and spatial and temporal datasets to investigate how these impacts can be mitigated.
The BioClock Consortium is funded by the NWA-ORC programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO; project number 1292.19.077).