Maria Faticov

I  am ecologist, focusing on microbes in various plant compartments (phyllosphere, rhizosphere), soils, deadwood and across diverse environments, including temperate and boreal forests as well as urban landscapes. My work investigates how abiotic (including climate change and urbanization) and biotic factors (host characteristics and microbe-microbe interactions) shape microbial communities, addressing key questions about the processes that drive microbial diversity, community assembly, functions and plant-microbe interactions.

Currently, I am working on the project that explores how different deadwood restoration treatments and tree species shape multitrophic community assembly by analyzing co-occurrence patterns and interaction networks between fungi and saproxylic beetles.

2016 – 2021                       PhD, Ecology and Evolution, Stockholm University, Sweden

2012 – 2015                      MSc, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Helsinki University,Finland.

2008 – 2012                      BSc in Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Management, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Kyiv, Ukraine