Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• 2001 – Ph.D., Plant Ecology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Ph.D. Thesis: Geophysical Applications of Vegetation Modeling. Supervisor: Prof. I. Colin Prentice
• 1994 – B.A., Geography and Earth Sciences with honors, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA Honors Thesis: Defining the Little Ice Age: Dendrochronology of Alpine Larch in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. Supervisor: Prof. Laura Conkey —

Work experience

• Since 2024 – NSERC Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Global System Modeling, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, Canada
• Since 2023 – Professor, Departments of Earth, Energy, and Environment and Computer Science, University of Calgary, Canada
• 2019-2023 – Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, China
• 2018-2022 – Make Our Planet Great Again Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Germany
• 2017-2018 – Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Land Use and Environmental Change, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
• 2017-2022 – Adjunct Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
• 2016-2018 – Adjunct Associate Professor, Laboratory for Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, USA
• 2010-2019 – Founder and Chief Scientist, ARVE Research Sàrl, Pully, Switzerland
• 2014-2017 – European Research Council grant-holder professor, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2013-2014 – European Research Council grant-holder professor, Institute for Environmental Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• 2008-2013 – Swiss National Science Foundation Professor, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• 2010-2013 – Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
• 2006-2008 – Research scientist, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Lausanne/Birmensdorf Switzerland
• 2005-2006 – Senior research associate (Oberassistent), Paleoecology section, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
• 2003-2005 – Marie Curie Fellow, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy
• 2002-2003 – Postdoctoral scientist, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria BC, Canada
• 2001-2002 – Postdoctoral scientist, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany

Membership in the scientific steering committee of national and international research networks

• Integrated History of People on Earth (IHOPE) program
• Future Earth/PAGES working group LandCover6k

Other service and Leadership in the Scientific and Educational Community

• Editor-in-Chief Global and Planetary Change
• Manuscript reviewing
  • I am a regular peer reviewer of research articles submitted to Nature, Science, PNAS, Global Change Biology, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Environmental Research Letters, Quaternary Science Reviews, Ecology, Geophysical Research Letters, Global and Planetary Change, Earth Interactions, Climate of the Past, and many other internationally recognized journals.
• Proposal reviewing
  • I regularly review grant proposals to National Science Foundations (and similar agencies) in Switzerland, the United States, United Kingdom, France, Canada, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Flanders, and for the AXA Research Fund.
• Advisory boards and selection panels
  • I have also been a member of the selection committee panel for postdoctoral fellowships from the AXA Research Fund and for grants from the Swedish Research Council. I served on the scientific advisory board for the Nordic Countries top-level research initiative Interaction between climate change and the cryosphere (NORDFORSK ICCC).
• Other contributions
  • I was a contributing author to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and a nominated peer reviewer of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
  • I conceived the Wetland and Methane Model Intercomparison Project (WETCHIMP) and I am a participant in the Paleoclimate Model Intercomparison Project (PMIP), and the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (FireMIP)
• Professional Society Membership
  • American Geophysical Union, biogeosciences section (since 1999)
  • Society for American Archaeology
  • Ecological Society of America