Florian Ruland is an ecologist who wrote his doctoral thesis about behavioural changes in novel species communities. He explores theatre, music and fine art as rituals of grief for biodiversity loss in order to overcome shock and inertia; as a performer on stage and as a seminar teacher at Freie Universität Berlin. As of October 2020, he is co-founder of a startup working on an app to support gender equality in the distribution of house and care work.