Patricia Holm#
| Membership Number: | 5573 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | http://mgu.unibas.ch/en/team/patricia-burkhardt-holm/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5396-6405 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2003 Professor of Ecology, Programme Man-Society-Environment, Dept. Environmental Sciences, University of Basel
- 1999 – 2003 Director of the national research programme on fish catch decline 'FISCHNETZ', EAWAG/ETH, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- 1992 – 1999 Assistant professor, Interdisciplinary Center for General Ecology, University of Bern and Institute for Animal Pathology, University of Bern
- 1990 – 1992 Post-Doc, Department of Neurobiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland (50%)
Fields of Scholarship
- Sustainable development for higher education
- Effects of endocrine disruptors in fish
- Fish catch decline and its causes
- Occurrence, distribution and effects of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems
- Anthropogenic impacts on cetaceans, with focus on pollution
- Invasive fish species in freshwater systems, with focus on gobies
Honours and Awards
- Since 2020 Vice president of the Swiss Committee on Polar and High Altitude Research. Swiss Academies of Sciences.
- Since 2019 Member and representative of Switzerland in the scientific advisory committee on 'Marine Plastic Litter and Microplastics' "of UN Environment Programme (UN Environmental Resolution 4).-
- Since 2019 Convenor (=Chair) of the Sub-Committee on Environmental Concerns of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)
- Since 2019 Deputy president of the board “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- Since 2017 Member of the board “Naturhistorisches Museum Basel”
- Since 2017 International expert for the special research field 1357 “Microplastic”, German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn, Germany
- Since 2015 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board “Naturforschende Gesellschaft Senckenberg”, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
- Since 2009 Swiss expert for the International Whaling Commission (IWC), scientific committee and steering committee member of the sub-commission “Pollution 2000+”
- Since 2008 Mentor of the Swiss Study Foundation (supports excellent students and postgraduates at universities and technical colleges)
- Since 1995 Member ,Swiss Academies of Sciences (Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology (SAGUF))
- Awards
- 2002 ALTEX Award by FFVFF (Foundation for Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, Zurich) for the publication: Schweigert, N., Eggen, R.I.L., Escher, B.I., Burkhardt-Holm, P. & Behra, R. “Ecotoxicological Assessment of Surface Waters: A Modular Approach Integrating In Vitro Methods”. ALTEX, 19, Supplement 1, 30-37.
- 1999 Laureat for environmental sciences “Berner Umweltforschungspreis”, University of Bern, Switzerland
