Below is a short version of my CV. A full version can be made available upon request.
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2002 |
Postgraduate Diploma (PGDipl.) in wildlife management, Zoology Department, Otago University, New Zealand |
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2004 |
Master of Science (M.Sc.) in plant ecology, Botany Department, Otago University, New Zealand |
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2004 |
Diplom (Dipl. Laök) in landscape ecology & nature conservation, Institut für Botanik und Landschaftsökologie, University of Greifswald, Germany |
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2008 |
Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) in macroecology, Institute of Zoology, Department of Ecology, University of Mainz, Germany |
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2005 - 2008 |
Doctoral scientist, Department of Ecology, University of Mainz, Germany (2 1/2 years) |
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2008 - 2009 |
Postdoc, Ecology, Behavior & Evolution Section, University of California, San Diego, USA (1 year) |
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2010 - 2011 |
Postdoc, Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Research Group, Aarhus University, Denmark (2 years) |
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2012 - 2013 |
Assistant Professor, Integrative Ecology and Evolution Section, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark (2 years) |
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Since 2014 |
Associate Professor of Quantitative Biodiversity, |
| 2020 - 2023 | Scientific coordinator of the Virtual Laboratory Innovation Center (LW-VLIC) of LifeWatch-ERIC (secondment with 20% of my time) |
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2023 |
Designated by the scientific publisher Elsevier as the 'most prolific author in biodiversity research' in the Netherlands, based on scholarly output in the period from 2017–2022. See report 'Biodiversity research in the Netherlands and worldwide'. |
| 2018 – 2020 | Member of the scientific advisory committee of the Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) |
| 2017 – 2020 | Co-leader of data task force and member of the implementation committee, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) |
| 2017 – 2018 | Member of the lab & infrastructure advisory committee (LIAC), Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam |
| 2009 – 2018 | Associate editor of The Condor (2009–2010), associate editor of Ecography (2014–2018), associate editor of Journal of Biogeography (2012–2018), and guest associate editor for PLOS Computational Biology (2014) |
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since 2006 |
Ad-hoc reviews for scientific journals, incl. Biological Reviews, The Condor, Conservation Biology, Current Forestry Reports, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Field Ornithology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Methods in Ecology & Evolution, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, New Phytologist, Oecologia, Oikos, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, The Quarterly Review of Biology |
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since 2008 |
Ad-hoc reviews for funding agencies: US National Science Foundation, Fulbright Commission, Czech Science Foundation |