Katrin Böhning-Gaese#
| Membership Number: | 7249 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=51666 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0477-5586 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2025 Professor Leipzig University, Leipzig
- Since 2024 Scientific Director, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
- 2010 - 2025 Professor Goethe University, Frankfurt
- 2017 - 2021 Vice-president of the Leibniz Association
- 2010 - 2024 Director of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt
- 2001 - 2010 Professor for Ecology at University of Mainz
- 1999 Habilitation at University of Tübingen; transferred to RWTH Aachen
- 1996 - 2001 Research Associate RWTH Aachen, Heisenberg award, Habilitanden stipend, DFG (German Research Foundation)
- 1993 - 1996 Postdoctoral fellow Max Planck Institut for Behavioural Physiology
- 1990 - 1993 PhD thesis, University of Tübingen
- 1984 - 1990 Study of Biology at University of Tübingen, Diploma
Fields of Scholarship
- Community ecology
- Modelling
- Social-ecological systems research
- Macroecology
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Karl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Medaille, Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft
- 2023 Wissensbuch des Jahres 2023, Bild der Wissenschaft, ZÜNDSTOFF, Publikumspreis
- 2023 Science Communication Medaille, Max Planck, Göttinger Literatur Herbst
- 2022 Elected Honorary Fellow of the American Ornithological Society
- 2021 Deutscher Umweltpreis of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (250.000 Euro)
- 2015 Elected fellow of Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Elected fellow of Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
- 1999 Heisenberg award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
- 1992 PhD fellowship of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes




