Vigdis Vandvik - Curriculum Vitae#

• Project management (Current from 48 projects; total funding > 300 mill NOK)
  
• 2025 - 2029 NaturA: Sustainable use of mountain grasslands under global change - Partner - RCN
  
• 2024 - 2028 INTEREST: Ecological research and education to meet the nature crisis - PI - DIKU
  
• 2024 - 2028 ECOBUDGETS: Actionable budgets for sustainable governance. Partner - RCN
  
• 2023 - 2026 DURIN: Dwarf-shrub climate responses and feedbacks in the boreal biome - PI - RCN
  
• 2021 - 2025 EcoMAP: Mapping for knowledge-based Area management and Planning - PI - RCN
  
• 2021 - 2025 FUNDER: Climate impacts on the functioning of the plant-soil food web - PI - RCN
  
• 2021 - 2025 RangeX: Impacts of alien species under climate change. - WP leader - BiodivERsA (EU)

Supervision (total/completed):

• Master's: 38/37
  
• Ph.D.: 30/18
  
• Post-doc: 15/14
  

Institutions: University of Bergen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences - Norway; University of Arizona, University of Michigan - USA; Makerere University - Uganda

Other professional experiences (selected):

• 2025 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC, https://www.ipcc.ch) AR7 WGII CH14 (Biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services) Coordinating Lead Author
  
• 2025 VEGLOVUTVALGET / ROAD ACT COUNCIL, Ministry of Transport, Norway
  
• 2022 COUNCIL ON ETHICS, Norwegian Govt Pension Fund Global, https://etikkradet.no/members
  
• 2007 26 PhDs Australia Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, UK – PHD Examiner
  
• 2007 Oikos - Editor-in-Chief, Botany, J. Vegetation Science, Ecography – Associate Editor
  
• 2006 Five national research councils, four EU, one ERC panels - GRANT EVALUATOR / PANEL CHAIR
  
• 2022 - 2024 NATURRISIKOUTVALGET/NATURE RISK COUNCIL, Ministry of Climate and Environment, Norway.
  
• 2019 - 2023 Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES, http://ipbes.net) Thematic assessment of Invasive Alien Species and their control – COORDINATING LEAD AUTHOR
  
• 2013 - 2023 RCN programmes KLIMAPOLAR, KLIMAFORSK, NYMILJØ - Board Member
  
• 2014 - 2022 Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (https://www.artsdatabanken.no) - Board Deputy Chair
  
• 2018 - 2022 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (https://www.vkm.no) - Deputy Chair
  

Publications: 187 peer-reviewed scientific publications, 78 scientific reports and book chapters, 18 published datasets, 232 scientific conference presentations (22 keynotes, 67 invited talks). 11,428 citations, H-index 58.

Research expeditions: I led Plant Functional Traits Course (PFTC) Field Expeditions in South Africa (2023), Norway (2022), Peru (2020, 2018), Svalbard (2018), China (2016, 2015). Each with 25-50 participants from >10 nationalities. https://plantfunctionaltraitscourses.w.uib.no/

Public outreach: >400 activities including: Norwegian and European TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, popular talks. LinkedIn, BlueSky >4600 followers.