Prof. Dr. Teja Tscharntke
Curriculum Vitae
Education and specialisation
- 1973-1981
Studies in sociology and biology at the universities in Marburg and Gießen
- 1978
Diploma (MSc) in Sociology, University of Marburg
- 1981
Diploma (MSc) in Biology, University of Marburg
- 1986
PhD in Biology, University of Hamburg
- 1992
Habilitation (venia legendi) in Zoology, University of Karlsruhe
Academic appointments
- 1985-1992
Postdoc and Assistant Professor, Dept. of Zoology, University of Karlsruhe - 1992
Offer of three tenure professor positions: C4 ecology (Hamburg), C3 zoology (Gießen), C4 agroecology (Göttingen) - since 1993
Head of the Agroecology Research Group at the University of Göttingen, Faculty member in Agriculture and Biology
Professional/academic positions
- since 1996
Member of the Editorial Boards of Oecologia (1996-2002), Journal of Applied Ecology (2000-2006), Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (since 2002), Agriculture (since 2014), Biology (since 2014) and Current Opinion in Insect Science - since 2000
Editor-in-Chief of Basic and Applied Ecology (the official journal of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, GfOe) - since 2000
Speaker and coordinator of the study branch “Resource Management” of the Faculty of Agriculture (Göttingen) - 2000-2011
Member of the Management Board (“Strukturkommission”) of the Faculty of Agriculture (Göttingen) - 2002-2010
Member of the federal scientific board for biodiversity and genetic resources (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, BMELV) - 2005-2009
Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre STORMA (“Stability of Rainforest Margins in Indonesia”) of the German Science Foundation (DFG SFB 552; www.storma.uni-goettingen.de) - 2007-2009
Member of the Managing Board of the Göttingen Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology - since 2008
Member of the Science Committee of the agroBIODIVERSITY network of DIVERSITAS - since 2010
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the SAFE (Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystem) project in Malaysia - since 2012
Advisory Board of the Dorothea-Schlözer Mentoring Program (female scientific career counseling at Göttingen University) - 2015 -2016
Member of the Project Advisory Group to review and critically evaluate a Pan-European experiment to quantify the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on pollinators
Awards
- 2008
Internationally most cited ecologist from Germany, Austria & Switzerland (according to the ranking in Laborjournal 10/2008: 55-57) - 2009
One-year sabbatical (Excellency program of Göttingen University) - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Highly Cited Researcher, ranking among the top 1% most cited scientists for the fields "Environment/Ecology" and "Plant&Animal Science"
(according to the Web of Science, ISI Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics)
- 2017
Internationally most cited ecologist from Germany, Austria & Switzerland (according to the ranking in Laborjournal 01/2017: 36-39) - 2018
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President’s International Fellowship for Distinguished Scientists
Key research expertise
- Biodiversity patterns and associated ecosystem functioning at different spatial and temporal scales (local vs. landscape effects; inter-annual changes; GIS and geostatistics); habitat fragmentation; beta diversity; spatial ecology
- Biodiversity and associated ecosystem services in managed and natural systems, succession of plant and animal communities
- Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships (herbivory, predation, parasitism, pollination)
- Tropical ecology; comparison of tropical and temperate communities and associated multitrophic interactions
- Pollination in wild plants and crops; plant population dynamics
- Quantified food webs and multitrophic interactions (direct and indirect effects; below- and aboveground interactions; interactions between plants, herbivores, pathogens, predators, parasitoids, pollinators and between invertebrates and vertebrates)
- Ecosystem services; multidisciplinary studies linking socioeconomic with ecological approaches
Publications: see PUBLICATIONS
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