Prof. Dr. Catrin Westphal

Funktionelle Agrobiodiversität & Agrarökologie

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Grisebachstr. 6
37077 Göttingen
Tel. +49 (0)551 / 39-28275
Fax +49 (0)551 / 39-188806
catrin.westphal#at#uni-goettingen.de

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Academic CV
since 2024 Full professor for Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology at the University of Göttingen
2018-2023 DFG Heisenberg Professorship for Functional Agrobiodiversity at the University of Göttingen
2016-2018 Lecturer at the Department of Crop Sciences, Agroecology, University of Göttingen
2011-2016 Scientific coordinator and sub-project leader of the BMBF project Land-use intensity and Ecological Engineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems at the Department of Crop Sciences, Agroecology, University of Göttingen
2009-2011 Senior scientist, Department of Crop Sciences, Agroecology, University of Göttingen
2006-2008 Scientific assistant, Department of Animal Ecology I, Population Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Germany
2004-2006 Postdoctoral researcher in EC FP6 Integrated Project ALARM - Assessing LArge scale environmental Risks with tested Methods at the Department of Crop Sciences, Agroecology, University of Göttingen
2000-2004 PhD student at the Department of Crop Sciences, Agroecology, University of Göttingen
1999-2000 Researcher at the Institute for Landscape Planning and Ecology, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Education
2016 Habilitation at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Göttingen, venia legendi for academic field of Ecology, title of the habilitation thesis: Pollinators, crop pollination services and functional diversity in changing agricultural landscapes
2004 PhD in Agricultural Sciences at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Göttingen, title of the PhD thesis: Bumblebees in agricultural landscapes: resource utilisation, colony growth, and duration of foraging trips
1999 Diploma in Biology at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany; thesis in nature conservation on the importance of floral resources for bumblebee species in agricultural landscapes
1994-1995 Studies in biology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
1990 Abitur at the Michelsenschule Hildesheim (high school diploma)

Awards & Fellowships
since 2022 Elected member of the Niedersächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
2018 - 2023 DFG Heisenberg Professorship for Functional Agrobiodiversity (Project numbers 493487387 and 405945293)
2002 - 2004 PhD scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)

Professional activities
Professional affiliations
since 2023 Member of the selection board for doctoral scholarships of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU, German Federal Environmental Foundation)
since 2023 Member of the nature conservation advisory board of the Göttinger Land & Südharz Ecological Station (Beirat der Ökologischen Station Göttinger Land & Südharz)
since 2022 Member of the steering committee of the Centre for Sustainable Land Use of the University of Göttingen
since 2022 Board member of the Department of Crop Sciences at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Göttingen
since 2019 Member oft he Advisory Council of the Biodiversity Museum of Göttingen
since 2019 Editorial board of Basic and Applied Ecology, subject editor for Applied Ecology
since 2019 Spokesperson of the study program Resource Management at the University of Göttingen, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
2019 - 2023 Member of the faculty council, University of Göttingen, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
2007 - 2008 Equal opportunity commissioner at the Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences, University of Bayreuth

Reviews
Funding organisations
German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), German Science Foundation (DFG)
Journals (see my profile at Web of Science Author Record)
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Apidologie, Basic and Applied Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biological Conservation, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Biotropica, Diversity and Distributions, Ecography, Ecological Applications, Ecosphere, IPBES Pollination Assessment Report, Journal of Apicultural Research, Journal of Applied Ecology, Oecologia, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Sociobiology

Memberships
Member of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GFÖ) and the German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (Deutscher Hochschulverband)