Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter#
| Membership Number: | 7246 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/zoo3/team/steffan-dewenter/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1359-3944 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2010 Chair of the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Biocenter), University of Würzburg
- 2006 - 2010 Professor for Animal Population Ecology, University of Bayreuth
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor, University of Göttingen
- 2002 Habilitation in Ecology
- 1997 - 2002 Research Associate, University of Göttingen
- 1997 Dr. rer. nat., Zoology, University of Göttingen
Fields of Scholarship
- Biological pest control
- Animal ecology, population and community ecology, agroecology, tropical ecology, landscape ecology
- Conservation biology, management of protected areas
- Relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across multiple spatiotemporal scales
- Plant-pollinator interactions
- Consequences of habitat fragmentation, land use intensification, climate change and invasive species on insects
Honours and Awards
- 2024, 2025 VinFuture Prize - Member of Prescreening Committee
- 2020 - 2024 Elected member of the “Fachkollegium 203 Zoologie, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2021- 2026 Coordinator of the EU Horizon 2020 Project Safeguard (Safeguarding European wild pollinators)
- 2021 - 2023 Dean of the Biological Faculty JMU Würzburg
- 2018 - 2024 Speaker of the Research Cluster Landklif and Scientific Representative of the Bavarian Climate Research Network bayklif
- 2019 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field
- 2018 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology
- 2017 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology
- 2016 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology
- 2015 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology
- 2014 Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Environment and Ecology
- 2013 - 2017 Vice-Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre “Insect Timing” (SFB1047, DFG)
- 2010 - 2017 Speaker of the DFG Research Unit 1246 (Kilimanjaro ecosystems under global change)
