Teja Tscharntke - Curriculum Vitae#

Prof. Tscharntke's research focuses on the interplay between agricultural practices and biodiversity, emphasizing the significance of landscape perspectives in agricultural intensification. His work has been instrumental in understanding how diversified agricultural systems and landscapes can yield joint environmental and social benefits. He has also contributed to the discourse on ecosystem services and agroecosystems in a landscape context.

Editorial Roles and Memberships:

• 1996 - 2022 Member of the Editorial Boards of Oecologia (1996 - 2002), Journal of Applied Ecology (2000 - 2006), Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata (since 2002), Agriculture (2014 - 2019), Biology (2014-2019) and Current Opinion in Insect Science (2016 - 2022)
  
• 2000 - 2023 Editor-in-Chief of Basic and Applied Ecology (the official journal of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, GfOe)
  
• 2000 - 2020 Speaker and coordinator of the study branch “Resource Management” of the Faculty of Agriculture (Göttingen)
  
• 2000 - 2011 Member of the Management Board (“Strukturkommission”) of the Faculty of Agriculture (Göttingen)
  
• 2002 - 2010 Member of the federal scientific board for biodiversity and genetic resources (Federal Ministry of Agriculture, BMELV)
  
• 2005 - 2009 Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre STORMA (“Stability of Rainforest Margins in Indonesia”) of the German Science Foundation (DFG SFB 552; www.storma.uni-goettingen.de)
  
• 2007 - 2009 Member of the Managing Board of the Göttingen Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology
  
• 2008 - 2020 Member of the Science Committee of the agroBIODIVERSITY network of DIVERSITAS
  
• 2010 - 2020 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the SAFE (Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystem) project in Malaysia *since 2012 Advisory Board of the Dorothea-Schlözer Mentoring Program (female scientific career counseling at Göttingen University)
  
• since 2020 Member of the Scientific Board of the WWF (World Wide Fund For Nature) Germany
  
• since 2024 Member of the scientific board of the national action plan plant protection at the federal Ministriy of Agriculture and nutrition https://www.bmel.de/DE/ministerium/organisation/beiraete/nap-organisation.html

Tscharntke supervised >100 PhDs and postdocs, and the success of these best indicated by the high number of professors, who fledged from his circle, and now leaders across Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, Sweden, USA.