Patrick Gutjahr

PhD Student

Working groups: PeatBES and Zoological Museum

Email: patrick.gutjahruni-greifswaldde

Phone: +49 3834 420 4181

Soldmannstraße 15, Room 2.21
17489 Greifswald

Research interests

  • Response of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) and other haematophagous dipterans to peatland rewetting.
  • Prevalence and transmission of arthropod-borne pathogens in degraded and restored ecosystems.
  • Diversity of selected Diptera families as ecological indicators of peatland conditions.
  • Environmental DNA (eDNA) as a tool for biodiversity monitoring.
Portrait of Patrick Gutjahr
  • Since 2023: PhD candidate at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut and the University of Greifswald.
  • 2017–2020: Mosquito Specialist, Biogents AG, Regensburg, Germany.
  • 2012–2015: Master of Science, University of Rostock, Germany.
  • 2007–2011: Bachelor of Science, LMU Munich, Germany.

Gutjahr P, Weber A, Fischer S, Kreyling J, Tanneberger F, Schäfer M (2026).
The rare and the common: habitat suitability and niche segregation of Anopheles algeriensis (Theobald, 1903) and Anopheles claviger s.s. (Meigen, 1804) in North-German peatlands is shaped by distinct landscape–weather interactions.
Parasites & Vectors 19, 410. DOI