Gippeum has joined the TRIBE Lab team as an exchange student in September 2026. She is currently pursuing her studies at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria.
Gippeum worked for approximately three years at the DMZ Botanic Garden of the Korea National Arboretum, where she participated in ecological restoration research. Currently, Gippeum is conducting her master’s thesis research entitled The role of spontaneous trees during succession in a reforestation trial, focusing on a reforestation site in Costa Rica and co-supervised by Zbyněk Polesný, the leader of TRIBE Lab team.
Her research investigates which spontaneous tree species establish during forest regeneration and which species traits and environmental factors influence their recruitment. Her research aims to contribute to the development of more effective approaches to tropical forest ecological restoration.
Welcome to our team!
