Nico Eisenhauer (born 22 February 1980, in Lindenfels, Germany) is a German biologist, soil ecologist and professor for experimental interaction ecology at Leipzig University.
Nico Eisenhauer obtained his diploma in animal ecology at the Darmstadt University of Technology in 2005, and then was awarded a doctorate in 2008 from Darmstadt University of Technology with a thesis "Earthworms in a plant diversity gradient: Direct and indirect effects on plant competition and establishment."
From 2012–2014, he worked as associate professor for Terrestrial Ecology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Since 2014, he has been a full professor for Experimental Interaction Ecology[1] at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Leipzig University.
He is also Head of the iDiv Ecotron[3] and the MyDiv experiment,[4] as well as founding member of the "Soil BON" consortium.