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POSITIONS HELD AND MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS / RESPONSABILITIES

Present position. Full Professor Microbial Ecology at University of Geneva:

• main research lines from 2007 – 2012 (see below) are maintained and developed
• president of the Master Program in Sciences of Earth and the Environment
• teaching at Bachelor and Master level

2009 -2012. Senior Scientist (tenured), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW):

• main research lines from 2007 – 2009 (see below) are maintained and developed
• functional biodiversity – ecosystem functioning and plankton based ecosystem services
• gene expression of inducible defenses – against predation - in cyanobacteria
• multi-stress (climate warming linked to oligotrophication) effects on primary producers and higher trophic levels in lake ecosystems; stoichiometric bottlenecks
• restoring healthy ecosystems in wetland areas
• Researches on the sedimentology, geochemistry and chronology of lake sediments (Lake Geneva, Lugano, Annecy, Nantua, ...).
• role of algal photobioreactors in waste water treatment

2007 – 2009. Group Leader, Swiss Federal Institute Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG):

• long term ecological monitoring
• impact climate change on deep alpine lakes
• Informatic coordinator (hardware et software).
• phytoplankton community assembly
• evolution of biological diversity, role of niche construction
• co-evolution of resource competitors in the phytoplankton (character displacement)
• genetic diversity, disease and environmental stress (using diatom host fungal parasites)

2001- 2007. Senior Scientist (tenure track), Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW):

• experimental co-evolution and genomics
• evolution of biological diversity, role of niche construction
• co-evolution of resource competitors in the phytoplankton
• co-evolution of diatom hosts and fungal parasites
• role of toxic cyanobacteria in fish and bird kills
• interference of humic substances with phytoplankton growth
• stable isotope analysis of foodwebs before and after biomanipulation

1998 – 2001. Program Leader Lake Ecology and Restoration, Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA):

• management and planning of the Lake Ecology Program
• coaching of ca. 12 – 15 project-leaders
• integration of results at the ecosystem level
• acquisition of new research projects
• consultancy
• communication with the public

1997-2001. Project-leader Plankton Research, Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment (RIZA):

• accumulation of cyanobacterial toxins in the lake foodweb
• remote sensing of algal blooms – integration with (fuzzy logic) modeling
• inoculum of cyanobacterial blooms - impact on summer blooms
• phytoplankton population dynamics, the role of competition for nutrients and light
• ecological assessment of Danube Delta lakes using phytoplankton, macrophytes and fish communities
• turbidity and plankton dynamics in floodplain lakes of the river Rhine

1995 - 1996. Aquatic ecologist Royal HASKONING – consulting engineers:

• initiation and development of “Aquatic Ecology” as a self-supporting discipline
• eutrophication projects
• modeling of water quantity and water quality of lakes and rivers
• Environmental Impact Assessments in the tropics
• wetland restoration

1992 -1995. Post doc, University of Bristol, U.K. (Prof. A.E. Walsby):

• physiological adaptation of cyanobacteria to surface waterbloom formation
• microelectrode studies of conditions and processes in scums
• PAM fluorescence
• stress physiology: photoinhibition, carbon depletion, extreme temperatures.

1987 - 1992. PhD student, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Prof. L.R. Mur):

• community and population dynamics of cyanobacteria
• selection of buoyant cyanobacteria
• acclimation of photosynthesis to high and fluctuating irradiance
• lake restoration via artificial mixing.

PhD students (co) supervised

• Petra Visser, University of Amsterdam, 1993-1997
• Jutta Passarge, University of Amsterdam, 1998-2002
• Jolanda Verspagen, University of Amsterdam, 1999-2003
• Frank Roozen, Wageningen University, 1998 – 2002
• Miguel Dionisio Pires, NIOO & Radboud University Nijmegen, 2001-2005
• Arnout de Bruin, NIOO Radboud University Nijmegen, 2001-2005
• Babette Bontes, NIOO, Radboud University Nijmegen , 2002-2005
• Eneas Aquirre von Wobeser, University of Amsterdam, 2003-2006
• Alena Gsell, NIOO & University of Utrecht, 2007-2011
• Silke van den Wyngaert, Eawag & ETH Zuruch, 2008-2011
• Dirk Sarpe, NIOO & University of Utrecht, 2009-2013
• Anne Immers, NIOO & University of Utrecht, 2009-2013
• Claire Marie Loudon, University of Geneva, 2012-2015

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