Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
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2010-2016
2004-2009 1992-2004 |
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Diploma in Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany. European Baccalaureate, European School of Varese, Italy. |
Research Experience
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Since 2017
2016-2017 2010-2016 2009 2007 |
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Land Use Change Research Group at the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, and the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. PhD thesis & graduate research assistant at the Department of Geography, McGill University, examining the contribution of organic agriculture to global sustainable food security. Supervisor: Navin Ramankutty. Supervisory committee: Madhav Badami, Elena Bennett, Sarah Turner. Diploma thesis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) about the role of nitrogen in crop productivity and its implementation into a model of the managed planetary land surface. Supervisors: Christoph Müller, Wolfgang Cramer (PIK) and Werner Kaiser (University Würzburg). Research project on seed dispersal by Sykes monkeys in South Africa, investigating the quality of seed treatment by Sykes monkeys and the secondary fate of seeds spat. Supervisor: Frauke Fischer (University Würzburg). |
Teaching Experience
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2017
2013 2012 2011/2012 2010 2006/2007 |
Instructor, Future Global Leaders program - Global Food Security: Challenges, Claims and Solutions, University of British Columbia, July 16-29, 2017.
Instructor, One Day @ UBC course - Separating the wheat from the chaff - what do we know about how best to produce our food?, University of British Columbia, March 11, 2017. Lecturer GEOG 360 - Analyzing Sustainability. Department of Geography, McGill University. Guest lecturer and Teaching assistant GEOG 360 – Analyzing Sustainability, Department of Geography, McGill University. Guest lecture GEOG 305 – Soils and Environment, Department of Geography, McGill University. Teaching assistant GEOG 200 – Geographical Perspectives on World Environmental Problems, Department Geography, McGill University. Student assistant in laboratory courses on Photobiology and Cytology and Anatomy of Plants, Department Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics, University of Würzburg. |
Other Relevant Experience
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2012
2008 2008 2007-2008 2006 2005 2004 2002 |
Participation at winter school ‘Limits to Growth Revisited’, organized by the Volkswagen Foundation, Visselhoevede, Germany.
Internship at press office of German Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau, contributing to everyday work of the press office, writing press releases and organizing public events. Participation in the Greek Summer School „Introduction to Conservation Biology“ in Papingo, Greece, organized by the European Section of the Society for Conservation Biology. Internship in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, working in the context of the black rhino monitoring program. Internship at the “GEO-biodiversity day” of the GEO magazine, Hamburg, working in environmental education and public relations. Internship and subsequent freelance work for the newspaper Mainpost, Würzburg, Germany, writing articles for the regional page and the youth section. Study trip to Galicia, Spain, investigating the consequences of a tanker accident for land and people supported by the zis Foundation for Travel Grants. Internship in the Wadden Sea National Park with the Society for the Protection of the Wadden Sea (Schutzstation Wattenmeer), Germany, doing environmental education and wildlife monitoring. |
Honours, Awards and Scholarships
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2016
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2007 2004 |
Young Researcher Best Oral Presentation, Global Land Project (GLP), 3rd Open Science Meeting, Beijing
Dissertation Writing Stipend, Department of Geography, McGill University Dissertation Writing Stipend, Department of Geography, McGill University Heller Family Fellowship in Arts and Sciences McGill Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID) Research to Practice Graduate Student Fellowship in Development Studies Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre (GEC3) Graduate Student Stipend GEC3 Student Travel Award GEC3 Graduate Student Stipend Principal’s Graduate Fellowship, McGill University Graduate Enrolment and Recruitment Initiative Fellowship, McGill University Short Internship Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research project on seed dispersal by Sykes monkeys in South Africa Liane-Wuttig prize from the zis Foundation for Travel Grants for the study project “Galicias black trauma – the consequences of the Prestige accident for land and people” Travel grant from the zis Foundation for a study trip to Galicia, Spain investigating the consequences of a tanker accident for land and people |
Invited Talks
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2017
2016 2015 2014 2012 |
Panel discussion on 'Is a 100% organic world environmentally sustainable?'. Food, The Future, And You Symposium, University of British Columbia, January 26, 2017.
Agromes - mapping the Agricultural Biomes of the world. Global Land Project Open Science Meeting, Beijing, China, October 23-27, 2016. Organic agriculture – a more environmentally friendly farming system? (Video) IRES Seminar Series, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, February 10, 2015. The potential contribution of organic agriculture to global sustainable food security, Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 12, 2014. The potential contribution of organic farming to global sustainable food security. Departmental seminar series, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, April 17, 2014. Organic agriculture as an opportunity for sustainable agricultural development. Invited student presentation at McGill Conference on Global Food Security, Montreal, October 17, 2012. The yield performance of organic agriculture (Video). Keynote speaker at VIIIth International Conference on Life Cycle Analysis in the Agri-Food Sector, Saint-Malo, France, October 02, 2012. |