Prof. Dr. Florian Jeltsch

• since 2006 W3-Professor for Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, University Potsdam
• 2015 - 2024 Speaker DFG Research Training Group BioMove ‘Integrating Biodiversity Research with Movement Ecology in Dynamic Agricultural Landscapes’
• 2013 - 2022 Co-Director ‚Berlin Brandenburg Institute for Advanced Biodiversity Research - BBIB’
• 2009 - 2019 Dean of the Potsdam Graduate School (PoGS)
• 2008 - 2010 Head of Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam
• 2002 - 2004 Head of Botanical Garden, University Potsdam
• 2000 - 2005 C3-Professor for Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, University Potsdam
• 1999 German ‚Habilitation’ in Theoretical Ecology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
• 1992 - 2000 Scientist at the Department of Ecological Modelling, Centre for Environmental Research UFZ-Leipzig/Halle (Germany)
• 1992 PhD in Physics/Theoretical Ecology, Philipps-University Marburg
• 1989 MSc. (German Diplom) Physics (Theoretical Ecology), Philipps-University Marburg

Current Employment

Head of Department of  working group Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation 

Selected Services

• Editorial Board: editor-in charge (until 2021) Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics; Movement Ecology
• 2012-2016 Member of the DFG review board 207 (responsible member for ecology of agricultural landscapes)
• 2008-2014 Vice-President of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GFÖ)

Research Interests

• Biodiversity research: linking individuals, populations, communities and landscapes
• Movement ecology
• Dryland ecology 
• Ecological theory and modelling
• Impact of land use and environmental change on biodiversity dynamics
• Individual-based ecology

Methods and Expertise

• Concepts, theoretical ecology and ecological modelling (focus: spatially-explicit simulation models)
• Linking empirical/experimental and modelling approaches in ecology

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