Prof. Dr. Teja Tscharntke

Curriculum Vitae

• 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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