Dr. Tina Heger is a biologist who specialises in invasive species and their impact on native ecosystems. She holds a PhD from the Technical University of Munich, and did her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis. At the University of Potsdam, Germany she researched novel ecosystems and the effect of ecological novelty on organisms (Bridging in Biodiversity Science). 

She is currently engaged in cross-disciplinary research including philosophers and political scientists concerning meaningful aims of nature conservation in face of biological invasions and ecological novelty. Since 2021, she has been co-leading two research projects at the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) in Berlin, working with computer scientists to develop new ways of providing knowledge about biological invasions to create a digital “atlas of knowledge” in which scientific knowledge would be accessible in an understandable form at no cost. Dr. Heger is co-founder of Symbio(s)cene e.V., an NGO that aims to develop positive visions for a livable future beyond the Anthropocene by bringing science and art together (symbioscene.com).